On Jul 01, 1996 at 23:05, Keith Richardson of 3:711/934.6 wrote:

 KR> i rather liked the sun monitor, in the days when i worked with that
 KR> stuff.

We have a Sun 20" colour graphics display, that actually comes with
(of all things) a hand-held cordless remote control (and yeah, it's the
best damn monitor on any of those boxes).

 KR> i wasn't aware that the ieee had a proposed standard for a bootstrap,
 KR> thats one of the disadvantages of being one of the uneducated masses
 KR> from the university of life (:

Finding out about the IEEE bootstrap stuff had nothing to do with
university, I was looking at some PowerPC write-ups, which indicated that
the specs for the reference platform were to use this "new"
standard, so I followed that to the IEEE and had a look.

 db>> The PC architecture sucks.  :-(
 KR> what architecture?

No kidding.  :-(

 KR> no, the mbr only pulls in the loader, i have no idea where that lives,
 KR> but you can see it work when linux boots, especially when you use scsi
 KR> disks. the loader checks out the hardware, and finally sets up the scsi
 KR> controller.

Ahh, *now* I get it .. that's the *kernel* printing out all that stuff as
all its drivers initialise.  You can play around with kernel options and
change those messages, for example I enabled 32-sector block mode on my IDE
drive (it's disabled in the kernel by default) and shortened the SCSI bus
reset delay from 15 seconds to 5 seconds.

That's the "/vmlinuz" file, or where-ever you've placed your boot kernel.

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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