From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 12:16:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13976 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:16:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles121.castles.com [208.214.165.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13971 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:16:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01416; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:13:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812312013.MAA01416@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Christian Kuhtz cc: Peter Wemm , Gregory Bond , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New aout-to-elf build failures. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:30:26 EST." <19981231123026.Q4306@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:13:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 02:44:05PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Not quite.. The 3.0 CD shipped with an ELF world, but an a.out kernel and > > 3.0-level a.out bootblocks. You should be able to type a "/boot/loader" at > > the boot prompt and be able to use the ELF-aware bootloader without any > > problems. Assuming this works, you can type: > > echo /boot/loader > /boot.config > > And you're elf kernel capable. > > Appears this should be /boot/boot.config according to what the BIX messages > say. That's BTX, and /boot/boot.conf (very soon to become /boot/loader.rc I suspect) > My /boot/boot.config contains the following line > > /boot/loader That's fortunate; it would be ignored. > And the message before the 10 second wait is that it can't find a > /boot/boot.config file. Placing boot.config in / yields the same result. /boot.config is read by the boot1/boot2 code. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message