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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:41:06 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Jeffrey S. Sharp" <jss@subatomix.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Albert Yang <albert@achtung.com>, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 5.0-CURRENT PicoBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007201027460.5504-100000@lepton.subatomix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000718093614.C17054@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> It might be interesting to try to do without loader.  The loader
> people don't like the idea, but it should be possible to boot a kernel
> directly from boot.

Yes, that works.  I've been doing without loader in several situations, 
and it works fine for simple booting (i.e., no loading of mfs_root
images, etc.).   The root device can be specified with the ROOTDEVNAME 
kernel option.
 
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Jeffrey S. Sharp   (XorAxAx)
jss@subatomix.com

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