From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 10 09:24:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA27225 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:24:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles176.castles.com [208.214.165.176]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA27191 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:24:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA12534; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199808101622.JAA12534@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 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? ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Aug 1998 15:46:37 CDT." <199808092046.PAA03447@detlev.UUCP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:22:36 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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. -- \\ 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