Subject: Re: Fun w/ 4GB RAM
To: None <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/22/2000 08:59:59
Jason R Thorpe wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 21, 2000 at 01:56:48PM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> 
>  > If a compressed kernel is less than 1.4MB, then just put it on a
>  > floppy, and installboot biosboot_com0.sym as the bootblocks instead of
>  > biosboot.sym.  It should then "just work".
> 
> Personally, I think that whole thing is a crock.  I'd like it to "just work"
> if I don't have a keyboard plugged into the machine.

This should be patchable or an option.  My modem box (I hesitate to call
it a "router" :-) has only one serial port for the modem, but I only
plug a keyboard in when it has problems...

Simon.