From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 9 23: 2:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6161501B for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 23:02:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id QAA15766; Wed, 10 Mar 1999 16:02:27 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <36E616B1.FC899131@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 15:52:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new loader.rc stuff References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > All this including of files is going to get damn confusing > for newbies. Hopefully, they won't have to touch them directly, and just use sysinstall. > It's also unlike anything i've ever seen before... Actually, it reminds me of the Linux boot loader a little tiny bit... :-) And you could certainly make comparisons with OpenBoot. But, aside from that, you are on the mark here. The new loader gave us a lot of power, and we are not exactly sure how to put that to good use. Up to now, it meant putting actual code inside loader.rc, which results in all sorts of trouble. Using a configuration files is a natural solution for that, and the similarities with rc.conf will, hopefully, make using it easier. Also hopefully, we'll get feedback to correct any mistakes before we get this back to -stable. :-) -- 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