From owner-cvs-all Thu Jul 22 23:59:27 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC4814F8D; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id PAA20403; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:59:16 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37977FB3.E70B23BE@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 05:31:47 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: Mike Smith , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha bootinfo.c src/sys/boot/common boot.c bootstrap.h src/sys/boot/i386/libi386 bootinfo.c References: <199907210013.RAA01154@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Mike Smith wrote: > > This should be taken as encouragement for some aspiring kernel > enthusiast to fix vfs_conf.c:vfs_mountroot to use the new format, and > slate all of the guessing junk in autoconf.c, etc. This new format is > also amenable to RB_ASKNAME (although that'd be better done by the > loader, TBH). Should vfs.root.mountfrom be added to loader.conf? Actually, *when* is that variable set? Before running loader.rc, or immediatly prior to boot? Mmmmm... since we would like to change rootdev, I guess the later, right? MMmmm... maybe I should just go read the code... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message