Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 03:04:22 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Christophe Yayon <freebsd@freebsdfr.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /boot & rcng Message-ID: <20021121090422.GA91387@edgemaster.zombie.org> In-Reply-To: <20021121085321.GA17400@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <3631.194.3.119.2.1037867981.squirrel@webmail.freebsdfr.org> <20021121085321.GA17400@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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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
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