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Date:      Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:51:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader version src/share/examp
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011210235129.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <45370.1008043656@winston.freebsd.org>

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On 11-Dec-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>> All these loader commits make it possible to overwrite the existing contents
> of
>> a file on a UFS filesystem.  This allows us to finally implement nextboot
>> for
>> example.  It currently only works on x86, but all that is needed on other
>> arc
> 
> Woohoo, cool!  It also lets one finally write the kernel hints editor
> fully in forth, too! :)

You could already do that.  The rc scripts (or sysinstall) merely need do:

kenv | grep ^hint > /boot/device.hints

to save the results of editing the environment strings in the loader. :)

> - Jordan

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