From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 4 11:34:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA23024 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-24-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22974 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:33:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id VAA04070; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:32:08 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901041932.VAA04070@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: New boot blocks for serial console ... In-Reply-To: <199901041644.LAA08520@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Jan 4, 99 11:44:52 am" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 21:32:05 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, bde@zeta.org.au, rvb@cs.cmu.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > Thanks, I wasn't aware that etc/make.conf settings affected the > > old boot blocks. I'll bring the new stuff into line. > > While you're at it, please make it possible to build bootblocks which > *don't* allow user interruption. As they stand now, the ability to > let any old person walk up to a machine and tell it what to boot > represents a serious weakness. I think non-interactive bootblocks have various potential uses, notwithstanding various comments elsewhere. Looking at related functionality, sysinstall presently provides two options for disk slice selection o Boot Manager o Standard MBR where the essential difference is that one is interactive and the other isn't. Given that, providing a non-interactive build option for the bootblocks doesn't seem unreasonable. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message