Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:46:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP: new loader.rc stuff Message-ID: <36E5EB27.2E44F17D@newsguy.com>
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A new loader.rc mechanism has been introduced. Nothing has changed with loader, mind you, and you can continue to use your current loader.rc (if any) unchanged, but Jordan thinks it might be better to install a loader.rc using the new mechanism by default, to keep support easy, so things might change in the future... Meanwhile, the new loader.rc stuff, for those who want it. It is modeled after rc.conf files. We now have a /boot/defaults/loader.conf, with all defaults (meaning it hardly does anything, serving more as a template), which will also load /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local, in that order, if present. The idea is to leave /boot/loader.conf for sysinstall, /boot/loader.conf.local for the user, and /boot/defaults/loader.conf to installworld. To use this, put the following lines in your /boot/loader.rc: include /boot/loader.4th start Then you can create a /boot/loader.conf.local with whatever other stuff you'd like, such as using a splash screen. Feedback, comments, musings and flames are welcome. (I'd particularly like a better name than "start" :) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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