Subject: Re: Question about biosboot.sym and serial consoles
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@herd.plethora.net>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/25/1998 13:19:00
Peter Seebach writes:
> >Luke M. has proposed a system of run time settable parameters for the
> >boot blocks that would include such information.
> 
> I'd like to point out that BSDI does this, and it's one of the best features
> out there.  It's great!  You can set flags, tweak device probing, and all
> sorts of cool stuff.  You can choose a root filesystem, too, which helps a
> lot.

Could you describe how this works in enough detail that we could
"clean room" steal the ideas?

Perry