From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 07:09:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA10865 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 07:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA10851 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 07:09:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA09865; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 16:05:00 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA04193; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 14:27:12 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199810051227.OAA04193@semyam.dinoco.de> To: Tom Jackson cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: /boot/boot.conf (was: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 17:13:57 CDT." <19981004171357.A318@TOJ.org> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 14:27:11 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > '/boot/loader' in it. I don't even know what the /boot/boot.conf is used for > and there should not be a /boot.conf. Will keep fiddling with it, thanks for /boot/boot.conf is a script where you can put commands for the new boot loader. When you boot sometime you will get the message from the new boot loader which tells you it will boot the kernel in 10 seconds unless you press enter (boots immediately) or any other key (which puts you in a command line interpreter). I put "autoboot 5" and "set no_autoboot=1" in the configuration file to shorten this waiting for keypresses a little bit. The seems to be no man page about this at present, though. I just read the source instead. This command line interpreter can take commands which seem to be intended for loading modules into the kernel and adjusting some settings. Not that usefull right now in comparision to what we had already with the exception of the module loading and ELF but enables one to more easily add new things at this point in the boot process and removes the size limit we had previously. If you want 100 kernel formats you just add them the same way a.out and ELF are in there. One could add some diagnostics software there, too. Some people might like a nice logo appearing during the boot process. Just depends on what one needs and not space limits as far as I understand it. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message