Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 23:57:42 +0000 From: Adrian Wontroba <aw1@stade.co.uk> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@miami.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.1 boot loader question Message-ID: <19990221235742.B21669@titus.stade.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902211447520.22050-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>; from Joe Marcus Clarke on Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 02:48:25PM -0500 References: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9902211447520.22050-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>
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On Sun, Feb 21, 1999 at 02:48:25PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 2. get to a boot loader prompt and set root_disk_unit=0 You can put commands to the loader in /boot/loader.rc, e.g, set root_disk_unit=0 mine contains: load /kernel load -t userconfig_script /kernel.config load -t splash_image_data /boot/splash.bmp load splash_bmp autoboot where /kernel.config contains PNP information for a sound card. pnp 1 0 os enable irq0 5 drq0 0 drq1 1 port0 0x220 port1 0x300 port2 0x388 pnp 1 1 os enable port0 0x201 quit The splash stuff is for a splash screen which appears soon after the kernel starts to initialise, hiding the device probes etc away. See LINT for more information on this, especially the splash pseudo device. -- Adrian Wontroba To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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