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Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand/README')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/README b/sys/arch/i386/stand/README index 5a92aa772ac..b5b7158acd4 100644 --- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/README +++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$OpenBSD: README,v 1.1 1997/03/31 03:11:59 weingart Exp $ +$OpenBSD: README,v 1.2 1997/03/31 23:06:04 mickey Exp $ Ok, just a couple quick pointers to people hacking on this stuff. These @@ -19,10 +19,10 @@ The basics of the /boot system is the following: biosboot: 512 bytes of the first sector on the disk/partition. This loads /boot (or whatever you did with installboot) into ram. -boot: relocates itself, and starts protected mode. There is some magic here -in terms of the placement and size of the various segments, as this piece of -code has to switch between real and protected mode many times to load the -next piece of the puzzle, /bsd.gz. +boot: starts protected mode, and process simple command line. +There is some magic here in terms of the placement and size of the various +segments, as this piece of code has to switch between real and protected +mode many times to load the next piece of the puzzle, /bsd.gz. bsd: The kernel itself, can be gzipped if ya want. |