From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 27 00:38:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25730 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:38:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles305.castles.com [208.214.167.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25725 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA00739; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:36:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811270836.AAA00739@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Forrest Aldrich cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF Kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:31:22 EST." <4.1.19981126132839.00926100@206.25.93.69> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 00:36:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > /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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message