From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 17 02:40:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA21512 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:40:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21443 for ; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 02:39:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA05148; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:38:40 GMT Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:38:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Julian Elischer cc: Terry Lambert , jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, green@unixhelp.org, peter@netplex.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: <36509430.2781E494@whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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