re: Booting
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 06:55:26PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> This is certainly true. It's a wishlist item, it would be nice if all
> free kernels would use multiboot. I've heard that grub will at least
> be partly rewritten to make some new features possible, it might also
> be the "extra environmental stuff" but I'm not sure what you mean with
> it.
It'd be nice, but I think the BSD's are going to be pretty skeptical.
FreeBSD, in particular, has a very nice boot loader. I rather like it,
it reminds me of OpenBoot.
that's because they've included a forth interpreter in the booter...
i have these huge conflicting feelings on whether i find that
extremely disgusting or extremely cool. :-)
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