Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:38:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, green@unixhelp.org, peter@netplex.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811171037130.21711-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <36509430.2781E494@whistle.com>
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > > > Call be crazy, but I think I'd almost like to move the "real" kernel to > > > > > > > /boot/kernel, providing the search paths were ok. > > > > > > > > > > > > You're absolutely nuts. > > > > > > > > > > Can we get postings in -current back on track? I'm seeing enough > > > > > Brian Feldman posts to justify a filter. > > > > > > > > The "mini FFS" used by the boot blocks doesn't know how to traverse > > > > subdirectories. > > > > > > Actually it does. > > > > Then someone added it more recently than the original version > > from CSRG. > > > > Terry Lambert > > terry@lambert.org > > --- > > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > > or previous employers. > > I think you're confusing two bits of code.. > > the miniFFS came via me, from the MACH bootblocks > > the stuff from CSRG (via Bill Jolitz) was junked in 92. In the alpha loader, I use Julian's FFS code to locate /boot/loader (because that bit has to fit into the 8k bootarea) and then the one from libstand for loading everything else. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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