From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 10:49:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3F037B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0DE043F93 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <200305271749140030061fume>; Tue, 27 May 2003 17:49:14 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4RHnE9c070358; Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4RHnD4t070357; Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:13 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20030527174913.GA70249@intruder.bmah.org> References: <3ED194D8.4040706@btc.adaptec.com> <20030526.164650.10294010.imp@bsdimp.com> <3ED29D4E.8070606@btc.adaptec.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3ED29D4E.8070606@btc.adaptec.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New bootloader! X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:49:16 -0000 --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Scott Long wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > >Do you envision this loader script as something that would be part of > >the installation process, or something people would use everyday? > > > >Warner >=20 > I think that it has the potential to be an everyday feature. Disabling > it is quite easy; just remove the patch that I posted in the previous > message (or just remove the line that calls the entry point). I'm > looking for it to be a start to something that enables one to easily > load arbitrary kernels, control device/kernel variables, etc. Cute. :-) I like this. This point probably isn't worthy of an arch@ discussion, but I'm concerned that it is not clear to the first-time user what happens when the count-down timer expires. (In other words, "[Space] to pause" *what*?!?) Maybe steal some of the wording from the old bootloader prompt? Bruce. --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+06UZ2MoxcVugUsMRArElAJ9WRnOrKHM9ezN9Hj9bJ89y5chiCQCgwTTQ dtzUTZXq0KEy3of4SfKwRKA= =OWvR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N--