From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 29 14:23:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20915 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hyperreal.org (taz.hyperreal.org [209.133.83.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA20890 for ; Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:23:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@hyperreal.org) Received: (qmail 15543 invoked by uid 24); 29 Dec 1998 22:23:17 -0000 Message-Id: <4.1.19981229140706.048df410@hyperreal.org> X-Sender: brian@hyperreal.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:10:05 -0800 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Brian Behlendorf Subject: Re: How do I build an a.out kld? Cc: FreeBSD current users In-Reply-To: <8069.914964398@zippy.cdrom.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:46 PM 12/29/98 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> I just upgraded to an ELF kernel, updated the boot blocks, and everything >> boots up great, except the new boot loader appears to be looking for a >> /boot/boot.conf (fails, then waits for 8 seconds, then boots /kernel). I >> noticed I have a zero-length /boot.config file - should I move that to >> /boot/boot.conf? > >Yeah, /boot.config is basically obsolete though it can still be used >for its old purpose, I in fact still use it to set my rootdev since I >haven't grok'd how to do that yet with the new scheme. > >/boot/boot.conf is supposed to contain any boot commands you'd like to >have run (boot.conf is actually a bad name, now that I think about it, >since it implies configuration variables rather than actions - boot.rc >would have been better, oh well!). So would a blank file tell it to boot the default immediately, or should I put "boot /kernel" in there? It's not that I really NEED those 8 seconds, it just seems like it'd be cleaner to boot directly. Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- History is made at night; brian@hyperreal.org character is what you are in the dark. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message