From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 12 06:29:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA11896 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 06:29:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA11886 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 06:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1/Spinner) with ESMTP id WAA16462; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:27:46 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199811121427.WAA16462@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: alk@pobox.com cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Nov 1998 02:39:52 CST." <13898.40443.642502.918589@avalon.east> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 22:27:45 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Kimball wrote: > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Call be crazy, but I think I'd almost like to move the "real" kernel to > > /boot/kernel, providing the search paths were ok. > > Now that would be a substantial improvement: No more files in /. > This suggests that / could go away. I like it! Don't joke too loudly.. :-) There are (or were) implementations of this sort of thing kicking around a while ago. > Further quoth Peter Wemm: > : > And the bootblocks might be needed for emergency repair. > ... > : What is going to get put on this bootable > : installation on the second disk if you can't mount /usr? > > FreeBSD. Remember /stand? Yes, but if your original /usr is gone and preventing you from getting to the bootblocks to build your new disk, you are going to have to source a /usr from somewhere. Sure, use the /stand tools to do it (ftp enough binaries to do a make world or whatever), but if you're going to do that you can *also* get the bootblocks from the same source in order to make the new disk self bootable. Anyway, this has been overdone to death now. It looks like there's some sort of agreement given that what is really being proposed is having a file copy of the disk bootblocks in /boot (ie: boot0,1,2, a total of 8.5kb). This isn't quite the same thing as "moving the contents of /usr/ mdec into /boot" (ie: the 1.4MB cdboot, bootroms, fbsdboot.exe etc). As long as "disklabel -B da0" etc still works without having to spell out the boot1/boot2 pathnames (ie: as it worked before), I don't mind. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message