Re: Options for boot program

2006-06-15 Thread Darren Pilgrim
I don't know why I was included in the CC list for this thread, nor do I have any input on the subject. Please trim my address from the CC list. Thanks. -- Darren Pilgrim ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: Options for boot program

2006-06-15 Thread John Baldwin
I can identify with your condition. :) Unfortunately, the early boot loaders (boot0, and boot1+boot2) are simply too tight on space to add more features. I think boot0 literally has 0 or 1 bytes free right now. However /boot/loader has a lot more free space and can be easily and intuitively

Re: Options for boot program

2006-06-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 15 Jun 2006 07:02:11 GMT, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My way of operating is to multi-task almost all the time [...] > > Hence I want the boot program to sound a bell (possibly several > times with a short interval to wait between successive times, and > proceed immedia

Options for boot program

2006-06-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My way of operating is to multi-task almost all the time. As such, while working on one task, if another task on which I am also working (but had to pause in it because some information or equipment that the task needed wasn't available) of higher priority suddenly became available/operabl