From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 18 00:20:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA14453 for current-outgoing; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:20:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA14448 for ; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 00:20:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA05178; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:20:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id JAA06255; Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:14:14 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970918091414.QH40970@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:14:14 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steve Kargl) Subject: Re: what is boot.help? References: <199709180048.RAA00306@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199709180048.RAA00306@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from Steve Kargl on Sep 17, 1997 17:48:13 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Steve Kargl wrote: > Subject says it all. /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.help The file that's displayed before the boot prompt, so the message could be made more verbose since it doesn't need to be stored inside the 7.5 KB of the bootstrap. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)