Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:22:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: mike@smith.net.au, ben@rosengart.com, dacole@netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New bootstrap config file(s) (Re: booting with verbosity by default? ) Message-ID: <199808101622.JAA12534@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Aug 1998 15:46:37 CDT." <199808092046.PAA03447@detlev.UUCP>
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> >> This suggestion hasn't been carefully considered or tested, but if you
> >> want to fix it yourself, then in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c, move
> >> the bit about "loadflags &= (RB_DUAL | RB_SERIAL);" to right around
> >> "readfile("boot.config", ...);" about 40 lines up. (The key is that
> >> it should be before "getbootdev(boot_config, &loadflags);".) This
> >> will effectively allow any boot flags in.
> > It will become either "-v" in /boot.config or "set bootverbose" in
> > the new bootstrap config, which I haven't named.
> > And this is a handy topic to raise it under; the new bootstrap will
> > (optionally) need access to quite a few files, and we may not really
> > want these cluttering up the root directory. How do people feel about
> > a /boot directory these days?
>
> If you're reworking the bootstrap, is it worth me submitting a pr with
> this patch? (I'm implementing it locally anyway.)
By all means. It's never a good idea to lose information, even if
you're not going to use it straight away.
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