From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 19:31:07 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA09569 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:31:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA09564 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id MAA27490; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:30:51 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36B12B51.9B9167DE@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:30:25 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: Patrick Hartling , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading a text file with BTX References: <199901282243.OAA00567@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > Ugh. No. BTX is the kernel that boot2 and the loader use. Well, that much I knew... It's just that I took to calling boot2 as "btx"... :-) > boot0 is the module that gives you the F? prompt What F? prompt??? > boot1 is invisible, it just loads boot2 > boot2 spins the | to begin with, and if you hit a key while it's paused, > you get it's prompt 'boot:', it starts the loader. Thanks. I have a clearer idea of it now. In which part of the disk each one of these resides? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from it, you haven't gotten market rate. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message