This is the kind of thing I'd love to help with, if anybody wants. 
Unfortunatly I don't have a working netbsd/vax machine, which would
most likely be a problem.. But I might be able to test things on
an old Vaxstation 2k if it works. (in pieces right now.)

I think memory/bus type and card ID tests would be a pretty invaluable
thing to have. 

--
	Paul Evans  PE34
	technos@apk.net _ paule@martex.com

On Sat, 31 May 1997, Karl Maftoum wrote:

> On Fri, 30 May 1997, Paul Evans wrote:
> 
> > I think perhaps LILO is onw of the best boot loaders for a PC I've
> > ever run across. (Besides Solaris2.5's)
> 
> :)
> 
> > I think a sun3-style command line multi-OS bootloader w/ diagnostics
> > would be invaluable. (inc. some memory tests etc.)
> 
> I was actually thinking along those lines something to test the net
> interfaces etc... I actually used to run minix-86 and it had a very nice
> bootloader/monitor, the monitor part is unecessary but it had nice menu 
> options for boot device, swap etc.... I sketched a design for the loader 
> in a maths lecture yesterday, I have a small image compiled that prints 
> out some diagnostics (machine type etc) then initializes the lance and 
> halts.. I'll do some work on it tonight and see what I come up with..
> 
> Cheers
> Karl
> 
> 
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> 
> Karl Maftoum
> Computer Engineering Student at the University of Canberra, Australia
> 
> Email: k.maftoum@student.canberra.edu.au
> 
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