On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:11, Terry Lambert wrote: > > If your argument was true then the kernel would need to load itself :) > > Think "CDROM install".
Think "No Emulation Booting" True the default is emulation booting off a 2.88Mb image but work is being done for no-emulation booting (actually to the point of testing it on a wide array of hardware I believe). You can also get to the sysinstall menu with zero mass storage drivers loaded because the whole thing is loaded using the BIOS/loader not the kernel, and from there read from a floppy (not as elegant I grant you, but that is why no emulation booting is being pursued) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
