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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:33:32 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/kget Makefile kget.8 kget.c
Message-ID:  <36D88EDC.305398A5@newsguy.com>
References:  <199902272005.MAA07212@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> Whilst I'm not enthused about having the loader know more magic
> filenames, I'd be inclined to add some code which checks to see if a
> userconfig_script object had already been read, and if not, searched
> for <kernelname>.conf and loaded it just before invoking the kernel (in
> about the same place as the automatic load of PnP-required modules
> should happen).

I'd rather have a loader.rc script do all this stuff.

1) It can.
2) Makes it easy for the user to change the behavior.
3) Seems to be the right place to do it.

The problem of actually installing this script is not much different
from /etc or boot blocks.

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

	"To make it absolutely clear: you stand on the wrong end of my
blasters, so you better get lost before I start target practice!"



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