From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 18:40:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10232 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:40:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10226 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:40:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02290; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:39:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:39:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Julian Elischer cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Peter Wemm , Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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