Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:05:00 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199802060005.BAA27868@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199802051144.WAA00426@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Feb 5, 98 10:14:09 pm"
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According to Mike Smith: > It occurred to me this morning that the *ideal* behaviour would be as > follows: > > If boot.banner exists, display it, else if boot.help exists, display it. > Don't have a 'help' command. Instead, if an unrecognised command is > entered, and finding a kernel named thus fails, look for a file named > boot.<command> and display it instead. > > This lets you have more than one help screen, just for openers. It > might even reduce the code footprint a little. With all these boot.XXXX files, and stuff, isn't it time for doing /boot/XXXX instead? Seems to me the root should have as few files as possible. /Mikael
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