From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jul 20 8:41:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from lepton.subatomix.com (okc-27-143-173.mmcable.com [24.27.143.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B402D37B821 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 08:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Received: from localhost (jss@localhost) by lepton.subatomix.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05519; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:41:07 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jss@lepton.subatomix.com) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:41:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeffrey S. Sharp" To: Greg Lehey Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , Luigi Rizzo , Doug White , Albert Yang , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-CURRENT PicoBSD In-Reply-To: <20000718093614.C17054@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. =============================== Jeffrey S. Sharp (XorAxAx) jss@subatomix.com -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.12 GCS/IT/MU d-@ s-:+ a21 C++(++++) UBL+(+++$)> P L+(+++$)> E+> W++ N+(++) o? K? w++$> !O M(-) !V PS+ PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+ R(+) tv+ b+ DI++(+++) G++ e> h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message