From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 20 8:58:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA3815177 for ; Thu, 20 May 1999 08:58:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA02634; Thu, 20 May 1999 08:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrimes) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199905201555.IAA02634@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Astonishingly stupid question In-Reply-To: <37442A84.D84BBF88@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "May 21, 1999 00:30:12 am" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Cc: saper@system.pl (Marcin Cieslak), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > > I would start by searching the mail archives of cvs-commit > > for /sbin/init and see what you find. Then look at the > > sysinstall binary and the PicoBSD stuff. Next go seek out > > the developers of these two wounder pieces of work and ask > > them how they did it :-) > > Well, man loader.conf might be faster. Only if they are running a new enough version of FreeBSD :-) gndrsh:root {145}# uname -a FreeBSD gndrsh.aac.dev.com 3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: Sat May 1 12:43:29 PDT 1999 root@br2.dnsmgr.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 gndrsh:root {146}# man loader.conf No manual entry for loader.conf gndrsh:root {147}# Also no place in the 3.2 man page for loader.conf to I see anything that talks about how to cause the kernel to load a differenct /sbin/init. Remeber he wants to replace init, not the kernel! -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD http://www.aai.dnsmgr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message