From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 7 8: 4:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (blaubaer.kn-bremen.de [195.37.179.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6419714DF0 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 08:04:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nox@saturn.kn-bremen.de) Received: from saturn.kn-bremen.de (uucp@localhost) by blaubaer.kn-bremen.de (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id RAA08238; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:02:34 +0100 Received: (from nox@localhost) by saturn.kn-bremen.de (8.9.3/8.8.5) id NAA82570; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:34:09 +0100 (MET) From: Juergen Lock Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:34:08 +0100 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Matt Behrens , zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <19991107133407.B81793@saturn.kn-bremen.de> References: <199911061143.MAA35365@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <19991106194256.A45418@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <382485B7.A8BDA80D@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.7i In-Reply-To: <382485B7.A8BDA80D@newsguy.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:47:03AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > And if we add a loader command that sets currdev to the first non-floppy > > ufs root found (or could this be done in forth too? :) we could even > > distribute a general emergency-boot-floppy... > > The forth part of loader has a serious problem in that it cannot get > data back from any of the non-forth commands. So, for instance, if > we "set" a variable, there is no way for a program to retrieve the > value the variable has been set to. Oh. (I think I actually already wondered about this once, but thought I just didn't look right...) > > This and a few other things are in my queue for a long time now, but > since nobody has been complaining about it, I let it be... :-) > Well. Anyway if (big if) _I_ wanted to do this I would have done it in the C part anyway, my forth is waay too rusty. :) Regards, -- Juergen Lock (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message