From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 10 02:24:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28776 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:24:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-25-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28753 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 02:24:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id MAA09078; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:22:30 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901101022.MAA09078@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/boot.conf -> /boot/boot.rc In-Reply-To: <199901101006.CAA04985@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 10, 99 02:06:21 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 12:22:28 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > Since this has come up, I'd also be in favor of the following: > > > > /boot.config -> /boot/boot2.conf > > /boot.help -> /boot/boot2.help > > > > This makes the boot.* files seem appropriately less important (they > > *are* less important) and also cleans up / a little. > > > > There tends to be confusion over the function and purpose of the > > various new boot bits and pieces, so this is probably worth doing. > > I'd remove boot.help and any support for it completely. This has > become a 'wizard' function. Moving boot2.conf sounds like a good idea > to me. That seems reasonable. The boot.help file is not currently being built anyway, since biosboot was excluded. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message