boot code commit heads up

Walter Venable weaseal at planethalflife.com
Sat Jul 24 05:57:56 PDT 2004


Matthew Dillon wrote:
    I have done some fairly serious work on the boot code.  By
    default it should remain compatible with the existing boot code but
    I would appreciate it if people could test it.  If your machine booted
    before, it should still boot now, I hope!
						-Matt
I had experienced a bug in the old boot code that caused the system to 
assume that I desired to boot in a custom manner (it wouldn't auto-boot 
/kernel, it would go to the prompt which required me to type 'boot' to 
continue), but now that bug is gone.  Great work!

Walter Venable





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