From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 21 1: 4:24 2002 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 9F62D37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (edgemaster.creighton.edu [147.134.112.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BDB043E6E for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 01:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from smkelly@zombie.org) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 620654157F; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 03:04:22 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 03:04:22 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Christophe Yayon , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot & rcng Message-ID: <20021121090422.GA91387@edgemaster.zombie.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , Christophe Yayon , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3631.194.3.119.2.1037867981.squirrel@webmail.freebsdfr.org> <20021121085321.GA17400@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021121085321.GA17400@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:53:21AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:39:41AM +0100, Christophe Yayon wrote: ... > > why is the a lilo file in /boot ? compatibility ? > > There isn't..perhaps you're confusing a FreeBSD file with a LILO file > that has the same name. (16) smkelly@edgemaster:~$ ls -l /boot/liloboot -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 212992 Nov 18 11:12 /boot/liloboot http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/liloldr/Makefile says: This is `liloboot', which creates a file which can be treated like a Linux kernel image, and is designed to be dropped into a Linux system and booted via LILO. Once booted, the user is greeted by the FreeBSD loader. This still isn't quite complete, as the the root= specification from LILO isn't currently passed to the loader yet. -- Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296 smkelly@zombie.org | http://www.zombie.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message