From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 17:38:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BAD137B401 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:38:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lightpro1.lightpro.de (lightpro1.lightpro.de [213.133.98.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780F843FBD for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:38:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from h@schmalzbauer.de) Received: from akima (ppp-62-245-162-130.mnet-online.de [62.245.162.130]) (authenticated bits=0)h6G0cZS5029297; Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:38:36 +0200 From: "Harald Schmalzbauer" To: Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:38:18 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20030716000052.GJ72706@cicely12.cicely.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FFS_ROOT is gone? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 00:38:38 -0000 *snip* > > The machine rebooted. No matter if I did "?" or any "ufs:xxYz". It's > > behaviour was like "empty line". > > That's the normal behavour if the line can't be parsed. > IIRC you can't correct typos on that line. > Even if a line corrected with backspace looks good - it is not. I'm very sure that I had a few attempts without any misstype because I tried that some dozends and I was aware that I didn't use any backspace *snip* > > booting the kernel with only boot0, no loader. > > > > Has this feature been intentionally removed? > > The loader sets variables that are required for the kernel to run > such as reading device.hints. > You can still compile the variables staticaly into the kernel and > directly use boot2 (boot0 is the bootmanager). Ahhh, of course there is a new device.hint. Ok. I'll try that some time. (boot0 was wrong, I meant the stage taht usually loads the loader, like you said boot0!) Thanks, -Harry > > -- > B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de > ticso@bwct.de info@bwct.de >