🚀 go-pugleaf

daver!owner-pc532@uunet.uu.net writes:
 > >...
 > >best choice...  It's nice to have Suns read /vmunix or /usr/stand/foo
 > >from the ROM, but I've always thought that there should be a better
 > >way to do that than to bury all sorts of filesystem code in ROM...
 >  
 > Look at how the autoboot monitor does it...  It works with ALL operating
 > systems!  In fact, since it now uses the BSD disk labels, it will work
 > with Minix, Mach and BSD.

I am a little confused about what the current state of the art in rom
monitors is. We have the original WBC monitor, we have the "autoboot
monitor" and we have the forth monitor.

How would the people invloved in the two latter monitors like to
sumarize the current status (features and robustness I suppose). Also,
if anyone has written a standalone bootstrap loader which understands
the 4.3 BSD file system (you know, the equivalent of /boot on Suns) I
am interested. Currently my bootstrap loader is the kernel, but this
hardly seems like a good long term solution. It makes it difficult to
try new kernels for one.

Ian