Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:54:24 -0500 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>, Tom Jackson <toj@silverback.gorilla.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/boot.conf (was: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... ) Message-ID: <19981005105424.B14649@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <199810051227.OAA04193@semyam.dinoco.de>; from Stefan Eggers on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:11PM %2B0200 References: <19981004171357.A318@TOJ.org> <199810051227.OAA04193@semyam.dinoco.de>
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Ok, how do you enable support for this? I rebuilt under ELF, and it installed the legacy bootstrap. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:11PM +0200, Stefan Eggers wrote: > > '/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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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