On Friday 16 February 2001 11:39 pm, Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Chris Gilbert wrote:
> > > They really can't :(( ... but the two bootloaders can easily exist next
> > > to eachother so a netbsd.old kernel can be booted with the old
> > > bootloader and a netbsd kernel can be booted by the new one....
> >
> > Couldn't you have a wrapper function that checks the magic in the
> > bootconfig, depending on the contents it calls the correct bootup
> > function, the final result of initarm is the same, a running kernel in
> > the correct place in memory?
>
> Well .... yes.... but is it really favourable ? I mean ... you have to run
> a newly build kernel to do that anyway so why not use the new bootloader
> then ?

Failsafe mechanism?  The new bootloader is still under testing and 
development.

Some people will also still prefer the gui interface (which is a bit strange 
considering that unix isn't exactly gui driven...)

Cheers,
Chris