Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:39:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112136300.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.981111174824.16843B-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > hackish or not here's the picture.. > The automatic upgrade provedure cannot replace bootblocks. > however we will soon only be able to profuce kernels the existing > bootblocks can't read/load. > > they look for a a.out file called /kernel > > we give them one. > > These are "embedded" FreeBSD machines. > they are all over the world. > We are certainly not in the position of bringing each back to the factory! > > julian > What exactly was wrong about having the old boot loader run (via boot.config) /boot/loader, and /boot/loader loading either an ELF or a.out /kernel? It works perfectly in this case, where I'm using all defaults in this case. And in an "embedded" system, wouldn't the partitioning/slicing/drive scheme be simplistic anyway? Cheers, Brian Feldman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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