Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:13:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Christian Kuhtz <ck@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New aout-to-elf build failures. Message-ID: <199812312013.MAA01416@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:30:26 EST." <19981231123026.Q4306@ns1.adsu.bellsouth.com>
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> On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 02:44:05PM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > Not quite.. The 3.0 CD shipped with an ELF world, but an a.out kernel and > > 3.0-level a.out bootblocks. You should be able to type a "/boot/loader" at > > the boot prompt and be able to use the ELF-aware bootloader without any > > problems. Assuming this works, you can type: > > echo /boot/loader > /boot.config > > And you're elf kernel capable. > > Appears this should be /boot/boot.config according to what the BIX messages > say. That's BTX, and /boot/boot.conf (very soon to become /boot/loader.rc I suspect) > My /boot/boot.config contains the following line > > /boot/loader That's fortunate; it would be ignored. > And the message before the 10 second wait is that it can't find a > /boot/boot.config file. Placing boot.config in / yields the same result. /boot.config is read by the boot1/boot2 code. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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