At 10:45 PM 5/21/00 +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>Some news:
>
>I have lately done some quite extensive changes to the boot system.
>The goal was to use RPB to send info from the booter up to kernel, and
>to use rom routines to read the boot program from disk in the boot block.
>The result is a boot block with filesystem support for FFS, CD9660 and
>USTAR (tar) and a small standalone routine for Massbus disks. All this
>occupy less than 7k :-)
>
>The boot program now uses the RPB info for booting if it is autobooting,
>so that it is possible to boot even from unsupported devices.
>
>And last, I also wrote a standalone device driver for the DEUNA/DELUA
>Unibus ethernet cards, so if someone wants to boot their 11/750 it is
>now possible to do the installation from a single TU58 and run the 
>machine netbooted :-)

WOW! Wish you could do that to a 11/785!!!!

>
>A consequence of this is that the old kernels cannot boot with the new
>boot block/boot program. New kernels will complain a bit if they are booted
>from an old boot program.
>
>-- Ragge
>
>