[geeks] She-it! (Ultra 20 arrived ;^)

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Sep 13 20:35:04 CDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 08:04:26PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> booting - the X86 boot process is absurd - is there a real good reason it 
> is so unlike SPARC-based systems?

Current "Express" releases of Sol10 use GRUB instead of the legacy Solx86
junk.  The reason its unlike SPARC is that PCs dont have OpenBoot firmware. 8-(

I'm envying all you folks that got one.  I cant afford it..

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
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