From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 5 09:53:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09533 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09501 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id SAA23510; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:50:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA07607; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 18:33:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199810051633.SAA07607@semyam.dinoco.de> To: Karl Denninger cc: Tom Jackson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: /boot/boot.conf (was: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Oct 1998 10:54:24 CDT." <19981005105424.B14649@Denninger.Net> Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 18:33:16 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Ok, how do you enable support for this? As someone else already wrote under whatever subject: Put "/boot/loader" into /boot.config and make sure you have the file /boot/loader (made with the sequence "make depend; make; make install" in /sys/boot) installed. Then the old boot sectors load the new loader instead of the kernel and that is all one has to do. I had to remove a line where the boot loader code tried to set a field for VESA modes in the bootinfo structure which I couldn't find in my version of the include files. Despite this it worked as expected. Only the command line interpreter seemed to have trouble with some errornous input but that's easy to avoid and as it just reboots in case of serious trouble isn't harmfull at all. The rest of information I got by dropping to the new loader's command line with trial & error and from the source. Loading an ELF kernel I didn't try as my loader is 0.8.0 and someone wrote one needs at least 0.8.2 for ELF. 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