From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 08:55:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28359 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:55:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Genesis.Denninger.Net (kdhome-2.pr.mcs.net [205.164.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA28342 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 08:54:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karl@Genesis.Denninger.Net) Received: (from karl@localhost) by Genesis.Denninger.Net (8.9.1/8.8.2) id KAA14663; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:54:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19981005105424.B14649@Denninger.Net> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:54:24 -0500 From: Karl Denninger To: Stefan Eggers , Tom Jackson Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/boot.conf (was: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... ) References: <19981004171357.A318@TOJ.org> <199810051227.OAA04193@semyam.dinoco.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199810051227.OAA04193@semyam.dinoco.de>; from Stefan Eggers on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:11PM +0200 Organization: Karl's Sushi and Packet Smashers X-Die-Spammers: Spammers will be LARTed and the remains fed to my cat Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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