> Maybe we aren't understanding each other somewhere in here. > SCSI and IDE are ADD-ONS. > On my machine, /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/bus_managers/[IDE|SCSI] > Always have been. > Now, that same code is compiled into the bootloader. Or code very similar. Actually not. Zbeos uses the BIOS to load the kernel and drivers and modules. What zbeos has hard-coded inside are tiny, read-only, versions of the filesystems, travis himself wrote a couples of those. manuel, > But I don't find that to be all that offensive. >