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Date:      Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:24:08 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Cc:        ru@ucb.crimea.ua, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [BTX loader]: boot command doesn't work as expected
Message-ID:  <199903142024.WAA09966@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <36EBEA87.66E7BF16@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Mar 15, 99 01:57:43 am"

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Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > boot -c         - works
> > boot /kernel    - works
> > boot -c /kernel - doesn't work
> > 
> > Any clue?
> 
> You mean it doesn't work as _you_ expect it to? :-)
> 
> help boot
> 
> Boot boots. The -c flag is to be passed to the kernel, not to the
> command boot.
> 
> boot /kernel -c

I may be missing some subtle point here, but there should be no
difference between

    boot -c /kernel

and

    boot /kernel -c

The "official" boot2 syntax, in both the old and the new bootblocks,
is also

    [kernel_name] [options]

but

   [options] [kernel_name]

is equally acceptable in practice.

In the case of loader, either way results in the same settings in the
"howto" flags passed to the kernel.

-- 
Robert Nordier


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