From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 21 14:15: 8 2000 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 86F8437C007 for ; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p10-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.75]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id GAA16223; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 06:14:52 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <39513080.13829E9C@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 06:15:44 +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: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Peter Wemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP!: config changes... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > That's fine. However, this practically makes using /boot/loader > mandatory. I still wonder if having some in-kernel interpreter wouldn't > give us more choice, with exactly the same functionality. Of course, it > would have to be run before any probing starts... If you do not want to use loader, then use the "hints" option in the config file. What is going to get deprecated, though, is being able to userconfig without using /boot/loader. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org Windows works, for sufficently small values of "works". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message