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At 11:54 PM +0200 5/23/04, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
>>  "Handle", in what sense?  How does /boot/loader.conf have any
>>  connection to anything PROM-ish?
>
>They are both used to set boot parameters such as which device to
>use for /, and to a certain extent to configure the hardware.

If I can set some value using 'vi', then it seems a little odd to
run a program called `eeprom' to set the same value.  Or to use
`eeprom' to add or change some values in /boot/loader.conf, but
need to use `vi' to set other values in the same file.  I don't
have much of an objection to the idea, but IMO it seems like a
slippery and unattractive slope to head down.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =3D   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu