From owner-cvs-all Fri Jul 23 1:11:32 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles505.castles.com [208.214.165.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EB114D21; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:11:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA00599; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:07:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907230807.BAA00599@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Mike Smith , 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 05:31:47 +0900." <37977FB3.E70B23BE@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 01:07:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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... Not until some aspiring hacker fixes the kernel side so that it actually does something useful. There's still a little fancy work involved there. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message