From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 4 22:39:30 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A6616A4CF for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:39:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from liberty.onthenet.com.au (liberty.OntheNet.com.au [203.22.124.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2AE43FDF for ; Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:39:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from freebsd.org (CPE-30-124.dsl.onthenet.net [203.144.30.124]) hB56dQZG035368 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 16:39:27 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <3FD0281B.2000804@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 16:39:23 +1000 From: Peter Grehan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030524 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Updated loader X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 06:39:30 -0000 http://www.ptree32.com.au/loader.120503 - accepts a single command-line parameter that can be used to set currdev e.g. 0 > boot enet:,loader hd:13 or more usefully 0 > boot hd:,loader hd:12 - fixed bug where a file offset > 4G was being truncated - a colon wasn't being accepted as an indication of an OpenFirmware device. The symptom was that /etc/fstab wasn't being read in, resulting in the mountroot> prompt always popping up. This also allows device aliases to be used for disk specifiers at the loader prompt e.g. OK ls hd:12/boot later, Peter.