In message <199603150934.JAA22994@easynet.co.uk>, "Neil J. McRae" writes:
>>  Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz> wrote:
>> > Pete Bentley <pete@demon.net> writes:
>> > > kernel. It might be worth considering combining the some of the
>> > > features of os-bs into a boot loader like LILO. I can't think of any
>> > > overriding reasons not to add that functionality into the BSD boot
>> > > loader (apart from size, complexity and the awkwardness of finding and
>> > > booting a different OS once you're in protected mode)
>> > 
>> > I think it's  better *not* to merge boot partition chooser and OS loader 
>> > into one LILO lookalike. I don't need any code to load Linux,SCO,DOS,....
>> > in my NetBSD machine.
>> > 
>> Myself also, I don't think that this should ever be part of the tree, 
>> there are utils out there that do this and they should not be part of 
>> NetBSD.

Perhaps not part of the kernel bootloader tree, but I think there is a
case for having native NetBSD versions of these utilities somewhere in
the userland tree.  OS-BS is nice, but requires DOS to run. NetBSD's
fdisk isn't the nicest in the world either...tidying those up would
let us make a rather friendlier install setup.  One day when I have
the time I'll have a bash at these...

Pete.