Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:11:08 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com> Cc: sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: kern/9670: kernel config at boot time via -c gives save option but looses settings Message-ID: <19990315111108.A91476@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903150937000.2614-100000@freja.webgiro.com>; from Andrzej Bialecki on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 09:41:47AM %2B0100 References: <19990315093043.A64525@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903150937000.2614-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
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On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > I just worried about ERRATA - it is incorrect!!! > > `boot -c' changes are not written into /kernel.config. > > > > In 2.2.8 boot2 worried about reading /kernel.config, > > and dset worried about writing /kernel.config. > > Ehm, not quite. boot2 in 2.2.8 read the boot.conf which was just the boot > flags. The actual changes from UserConfig were being extracted and written > out as binary patches to the kernel (can you say "ugly"?). Or, > alternatively, you could write them manually into /kernel.config, and > they would be automatically read by /kernel, whether you wanted it or not. > > Now, boot2 reads about the same info, but from /boot/boot.conf, but if you > don't load /kernel.config explicitely, /kernel ignores it. > So, what is the current way to save kernel changes? Is it possible without kget? Is ERRATA.TXT correct? -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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