Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 23:37:12 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: bde@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: /boot.foo madness Message-ID: <199707211437.XAA17480@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 06:19:30 MST." <27686.869491170@time.cdrom.com> References: <27686.869491170@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>Because of the introduction of these three files:
>
> /boot.config
> /boot.help
> /kernel.config
>
>New RELENG_2_2 installations now come up with a root filesystem which
>contains none of these files, resulting in 3 fairly ominous-looking
>error messages on startup and a complete lack of boot help. This is
>simply not an acceptable scenario, and the question I'd like to bring
>before you all is: "How do we want to fix it?"
# Am I a part of the guilty party of this madness? Maybe...
Anyway, why not just suppress error messages. That's the simplest
solution/kludge. None of the above three files are mandatory. If we
are concerned about the lack of help messages, we should provide just
one line such as:
Usage: bios_drive:interface(unit,partition)kernel_name options
I don't think we can cram more in the boot code. That's basically why
/boot.help was created in the first place, I guess.
Kazu
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