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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.

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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.
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