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A couple of days ago, I went looking for when this code was removed. It was removed in 2003: https://lwn.net/Articles/21512/ https://lwn.net/Articles/21512/
by cesarb 6y ago
A couple of days ago, I went looking for when this code was removed. It was removed in 2003: https://lwn.net/Articles/21512/ https://lwn.net/Articles/21512/
- fierarul 6y agoNice link! The code is so tiny they could have kept it... But, oh well, progress. I like the message: - .ascii "Loading" +bugger_off_msg: + .ascii "Direct booting from floppy is no longer supported.\r\n" + .ascii "Please use a boot loader program instead.\r\n" + .ascii "\n" + .ascii "Remove disk and press any key to reboot . . .\r\n" + .byte 0
- cesarb 6y ago> The code is so tiny they could have kept it... Not for long; the EFI headers later used the same space, which even required severely shortening that "no longer supported" message (the first two lines of the message were replaced by just "Use a boot loader.\r\n")