On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 04:38:50PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
  | > Of course, if possible we actually want to move away from the "bbinfo"
  | > style bootblock to one where bootxx knows how to read the file system
  | > to find /boot, so this approach wouldn't work for that goal.
  | 
  | I'm not really sure how much space we have/don't have. So I don't know if 
  | a bootxx_fs approach would work. It'd be nice if we could make it work.

Weird;  the alpha and PMAX both have "large" binaries due to their
instruction set, and we manage to fit the "smart" first stage bootloader
into 7.5KB on those platforms.  I wonder what the issue on macppc is.

Luke.