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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:36:24 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ELF Kernels 
Message-ID:  <199811270836.AAA00739@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:31:22 EST." <4.1.19981126132839.00926100@206.25.93.69> 

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> /etc/make.conf should be changed to specify that boot.conf 
> should be in /boot, not / ... at least the loader complains about it.

The only error in make.conf is that it says that the bootloader startup 
script is 'loader.conf' when in fact it's still called 'boot.conf'.

> Also, it complained "boot bad format", which I presume was the
> boot.conf file, which stated "/boot/loader".

There is no such error string in any of the boot components that I'm 
able to find.  Could you please indicate at which stage in the boot 
phase the message was emitted, and the exact message including 
punctuation, etc.?

> Is the ELF Kernel still in an experimental stage?  If not, why doesn't
> the system default to using an ELF kernel?   Just curious...

ELF kernels are reliable but not the default yet.  We're staying with 
a.out until the issues related to migration from LKMs are resolved and 
the KLD design is stable.  There's probably one more iteration of this 
to go.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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