On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

> My tests involved having "boot.pmax" on the ISO filesystem and the
> first stage trying to open that filename.  A hex dump of the start of
> the filesystem showed only a BOOT.PMA in the directory.  Being an ISO
> novice, I wrongly assumed that this filesystem had an 8.3 limit.
> 
> For the paranoid, there's the benefit that the ISO bootblocks are quite
> a bit smaller than the ufs bootblocks.  On the pmax:
> 
> 	checking sizes for bootxx_cd9660... OK - 1384 bytes free
> 	checking sizes for bootxx_ffs... OK - 392 bytes free
> 
> It's probably not unreasonable then to add a check that if
> boot.${MACHINE} fails to load then to try only using the last three
> characters of boot.${MACHINE}.
> 
> 
> So, it appears that boot.${MACHINE} is now a valid option for all
> current boot media.  Is there anyone unhappy with this naming
> convention?
> 
	Just curious, what about macppc/mac68k, sparc/sparc64,
	newsmips/news68k


		David/absolute