From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 16 14:28:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10084 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:28:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA09996 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 21:27:54 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01210; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199804162124.OAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting issues In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:54:32 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:24:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I have a suggestion: could we change the messages "Can't find > kernel.conf" etc. to something less scary for the new user? Something like > "Using default config (no /kernel.conf)". General consensus is that the messages are spurious. The defenders of these messages are, however, firmly entrenched. Creating an empty /kernel.conf file is a trivial workaround. > And another issue: some time ago there was very animated discussion about > "/boot.banner". Is this idea being implemented by someone, or it just > died off? There is no space in the current booblocks, and their future is limited. > And yet another (CAM related): does present bootblock allow to use the > "da" instead of "sd"? No, although if you were to submit such a trivial patch to the CAM developers I'm sure they'd accept it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message