From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 18 05:13:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA01021 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:13:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA00998 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 05:13:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA24852; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:24:55 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA28976; Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:24:53 -0700 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:24:53 -0700 Message-Id: <199801180324.UAA28976@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bruce Evans Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/5481: boot blocks too big with BOOT_HD_BIAS defined In-Reply-To: <199801180258.NAA12564@godzilla.zeta.org.au> References: <199801180258.NAA12564@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> You will have to worry soon when BOOT_HD_BIAS is removed :-). > > > >So, where is the example boot.config for -stable that we can use to > >build our custom setup? I don't even know what the format of this (now > > `man boot'. That's pretty weak documentation. I think an example verbose 'boot.config' file would be more appropriate. > >required) file, and README.serial doesn't explain it well enough to know > >how to setup a system so that BOOT_HD_BIAS is not required. > > README.serial is for serial consoles so you shouldn't expect it to explain > boot or drive configuration. No, but IMHO neither does the boot(8) manpage. :( Nate