Subject: Re: installing/running 1.4D
To: None <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: jiho <root@mail.c-zone.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/06/1999 15:24:43 
> Uh, stated *where*, exactly?  Our boot sectors were written by Matthias
> Drochner and a cast of thousands ;-) and were certainly not lifted from
> any other operating system as far as I can tell.
 
So Frank van der Linden tells me.  See my reply to him.


--Jim Howard  <jiho@mail.c-zone.net>
> Just wanted to clear that up, > > - Frank Aha! Well, that certainly explains why FreeBSD 3.3 doesn't use this stuff yet, doesn't it? I saw the line about "FreeBSD code", went looking at what FreeBSD has in their -current, and found what looks like virtually the same boot sector code. So you are saying that _they_ borrowed it from _you_! By the way, the latest "lilo" code, which is what everyone historically uses for Linux booting, shows no knowledge of any of this. So Linux doesn't look like it's going to have this feature soon, either. While we're on the subject of features: Apparently, the reason FreeBSD 3.3 is performing so slowly -- on a partition that should be much faster than the one I have NetBSD 1.4D installed on -- is that FreeBSD 3.3 still has only an ISA-based IDE driver. I see nothing there about a PCI-based driver, and I deduce it's doing IDE the old fashioned way. --Jim Howard <jiho@mail.c-zone.net>