Floppy Support

[David O'Brien]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 08:03:58PM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> >On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote:
> >
> >>The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so 
> >>far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware.
> >
> >How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel
> >on floppies?

Ah.
 
> The snapshot server is basically wasting CPU cycles, and has been for a 
> couple of weeks now. Support for my hard disk controllers has been 
> checked in, but here I sit, waiting. Why? Because we fit the kernel on 
> floppies.
> 
> >Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of
> >BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI.
> 
> You haven't used an EFI box yet, have you. ;)

I have.  Notice that AMD64 systems don't do EFI.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)