From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 21 15: 5:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84207154EE; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 15:05:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p14-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.132.6.143]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id IAA17405; Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:05:27 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38600709.610AC237@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 08:02:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith Cc: John Polstra , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts References: <199912212055.MAA00763@mass.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith wrote: > > Hmm. The "right" answer would appear to be in a 'loader.rc.local', but > that's obviously not implemented at this point. The loader.rc file isn't > typically overwritten after installation, so either inserting it there or > sourcing another file at that point would be the cleanest way. I should have mentioned this in my previous reply. /boot/loader.rc is not overwritten by source upgrades, but it is overwritten by binary upgrades. > As David mentioned, Ficl isn't up and running on the Alpha yet. Daniel > Sobral was working on integrating a new version of Ficl which is meant to > be 64-bit clean. It's supposed to be ready. Testmain runs. Debugging the loader to find out why it doesn't has proven to be difficult... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) who is as social as a wampas dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message