From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 15: 2:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-11-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FBD14EF6 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id BAA00913; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:01:04 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199903022301.BAA00913@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: Using /boot.config In-Reply-To: <19990302174248.D3773@dmaddox.conterra.com> from "Donald J . Maddox" at "Mar 2, 99 05:42:48 pm" To: dmaddox@conterra.com Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 01:01:02 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, joerg@krdl.org.sg, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Donald J . Maddox wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 03:23:57PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > > Joerg B. Micheel wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I know, this is still in transit state, but I need boot configuration > > > for some project and I can't make boot.config do what I want, which is: > > > > > > load kernel > > > load somemodule > > > autoboot/boot > > > > > > When I read the help file and I test it in manual command line, everything > > > works as expected. However, putting those commands into the script lets > > > boot grok with either "No boot" or "No somemodule". When I explictely > > > give it "boot kernel" it will overwrite the previously loaded things and > > > start from scratch. > > > > > > Any fix ? Thanks. > > > Joerg > > > > Unless 'boot.config' is just a typo, you're using the wrong file. Try > > editing /boot/loader.rc. > > A quick look at the source shows that /boot/boot.conf will work fine, too, > which is lucky for me, since that's what I'm using :-) Is /boot/boot.conf > deprecated? Yes: the name was changed, so it falls back to /boot/boot.conf just for backward compatibility. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message