Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 02:53:43 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com> Cc: bsdknowledgeseeker@hotmail.com, K.J.Koster@kpn.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeBSD booting src info Message-ID: <38C7E527.75715700@newsguy.com> References: <200003091708.JAA06634@biggusdiskus.flyingfox.com>
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Jim Shankland wrote:
>
> boot2 is slightly more sophisticated, and understands
> the FreeBSD filesystem enough to find files on it, and
> can provide a simple interface to choose the kernel or
> loader to run.
>
> Since the loader is much more sophisticated, and
> provides a nice easy-to-use boot configuration, boot2
> usually runs it, but previously it was tasked to run
> the kernel directly.
>
> If there is more detailed documentation somewhere, I'd be happy
> to receive a pointer to it. For now, I'm in UTSL mode. If I
> survive that, maybe I'll write something up. Was mich nicht
> umbringt, macht mich staerker :-).
Man pages?
Though much of what was asked can only be found in source code. What
would be the point in documenting how the memory is set up?
--
Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
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dcs@freebsd.org
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