From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 17 21:23:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD14637B405; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:23:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id fAI5NIM36343; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45BBE38CC; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: clefevre@citeweb.net, Makoto Matsushita , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PATCH: sysinstall to remove userconfig code In-Reply-To: <200111180111.fAI1BQ756982@harmony.village.org> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:23:18 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011118052318.45BBE38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200111172343.fAHNhnw28962@gits.dyndns.org> Cyrille Lefevre writes : > : Warner Losh wrote: > : > In message <200111132009.fADK9sX50643@gits.dyndns.org> Cyrille Lefevre wr ites: > : > : I don't know -current. what is the feature which replace kget ? > : > : does boot -c (or whatever) still exists ? is it possible to > : > : edit .hints at boot time ? > : > > : > set/unset works. > : > > : > I've removed ISA devices at boot time by unsetting the 'at' hint. > : > : thanks for the trick. but show/set/unset are really less intuitive > : than boot -c, specifically to novice users. unfortunately, I'm not > : forth aware at all, so, don't ask me about writting such tool using > : forth :P > > Right. There is a forth tool available (authored I think by > matsushita-san), and now that matsushita-san is a committer, maybe it > will be done in time for 5.0. :-) As a fallback, I've been threatening to do a simple userconfig-style thing in loader itself as a fallback if necessary.. I'd rather not since that would just make loader bigger still, but it's always there as a quick/dirty fallback option. If my memory serves me correctly, we dont enable bootforth on the 5.0 boot floppies. This is probably more a symptom of having an identical config for floppies and cd boot. Now that we have cdboot for i386 all but there, we should be able to finally do a complete boot for the CD case and a smaller stripped kernel with esoteric drivers on a seperate disk for the floppy-only case. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message