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Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:02:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>,
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Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) 
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian Feldman wrote:

> 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?

the existing bootblocks predate "Boot.conf"

I think just changing the name of the 3rd stage boot to /kernel will do
the job nicely. There are lots of issues I can't really go into.



> 
> Cheers,
> Brian Feldman
> 
> 


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