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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:39:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: new loader.rc stuff
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903132032280.340-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <36EB037C.B0D9C7BC@newsguy.com>

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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> If you are running -stable

This is the -current list, and I'm running current.  I don't have the
file "userconfig_script" nor /kernel.config.

, you'll be able to use it if you import
> -current's sys/boot and sys/sys/linker.h, cd /sys/boot ; make depend
> && make all install.
> 
> OTOH, you might solve your problem just by adding the following two
> lines to /boot/loader.rc
> 
> load kernel
> load -t userconfig_script /kernel.config
> 
> and then putting your pnp configuration line on /kernel.config (if
> it is not there already).

This is good info for current, right?  And I don't need to worry about
"userconfig_script"?  What's load -t do (I don't need a man page, but at
least a few words on the -t, please).

The pnp line will be the only thing in /kernel.config, that's normal?

> 
> This will work on both current and stable, so I think I ought to
> mention it. :-)

I am not running stable, it doesn't track all the new config stuff, but
I have all the files listed below, it seems.

> 
> Now, back to the loader.rc stuff, in case you _are_ running
> -current... it should have installed the following files:
> 
> /boot/loader.4th
> /boot/support.4th
> /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> 
> The last file is all you really need as example.

I was asking about where to stick in the pnp line, and an example of
that.  I guess it's not loader.conf (I just tested that, it didn't work
there).  I'm a little leery yet of the load -t because I don't have that
userconfig_script file, and I don't know what the load -t does.

> 
> A man page is in the works. It is queued right after the loader man
> page, which has been a real drag to write, but I think I might be
> committing it today. But the loader.conf man page won't really add
> anything for you that is not in /boot/defaults/loader.conf.
> 
> --
> Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
> dcs@newsguy.com
> dcs@freebsd.org
> 
> 	"My theory is that his ignorance clouded his poor judgment."
> 
> 

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