From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 11 8:23:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3AA37B41B for ; Sat, 11 May 2002 08:22:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 26112 invoked from network); 11 May 2002 15:22:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 11 May 2002 15:22:46 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4BFMiF49270; Sat, 11 May 2002 11:22:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3CDCCE83.66AEF4BB@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 11:22:41 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Gordon Tetlow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-May-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > I don't understand the "YES"/"NO" thing, then. There is one byte > difference in the file length, which I don't think can be properly > accounted, if you do the "YES"/"NO" thing. He could make it NES for all it matters. Terry, please see that Gordon isn't trying to reimplement Whistle's nextboot. Personally, I'm tired of missing the window in the loader to boot a test kernel, so what I want is to do 'nextboot foo -s' to boot /boot/foo/kernel into single user mode on the next boot and fall back to /boot/kernel/kernel on the next boot after that. >> > Don't assume that the nextboot file will be on the same disk and/or >> > partition as the boot and other config file code. >> >> Well, I'm assuming it's on the root partition. It would be kinda silly for >> it to anywhere else. > > Not really. Consider that if I switch root partitions, then, by > definition, I switch nextboot files. > > Basically, the InterJet was laid out: Repeat after me: This nextboot != Interjet nextboot. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message