Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:05:07 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> To: Chris <chrismar@readington.com> Cc: Jeff Ehrenkrantz <admin@Gccomm.Net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Boot -c in 3.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <19990304180507.B1316@dmaddox.conterra.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903041640210.19296-100000@walnut.readington.com>; from Chris on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 04:40:52PM -0500 References: <19990301172745.A1281@dmaddox.conterra.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903041640210.19296-100000@walnut.readington.com>
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Ok, you're crazy :-) No, really, I made a typo in my reply... I meant to write /boot/boot.conf, not /boot/boot.config, but I have found out since writing this that, at least in -current (not sure about 3.1R), the preferred file name is now /boot/loader.rc, although /boot/boot.conf will still work. Sorry about that... On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Chris wrote: > Call me crazy, but this doesn't seem to work. I must have tried this 5 > times last night and I still had to boot -c and enter everything by hand. > > Chris > > On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > > > In aout systems, the 'dset' program was used to write configuration > > changes directly to the aout kernel image. It doesn't work with ELF > > kernels. A utility called 'kget' was recently added to the -current > > tree to do something similar for ELF kernels, but that doesn't help > > you much... > > > > You need to create a /boot/boot.config file that contains at least > > these lines: > > > > load kernel > > load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf > > > > Then, you need to create a /boot/kernel.conf file that contains the > > commands that you would normally type at the config> prompt. > > > > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:52:32AM -0500, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote: > > > Hello All, > > > I recently Installed 3.1 Release on a drive having the old boot blocks. > > > Thus it is necessary for me to do a "boot -c" to tweak an Ethernet isa > > > address. Although the system does work after this tweak. The change does > > > not get stored. This system is a minimum hard drive/system install so I > > > don't have the space to compile a custom kernel at this point. Can someone > > > tell me why the changes don't get saved? & any chance I can binary edit the > > > Generic Kernel to take care of my prob. Or is there some other solution > > > available > > > Regards.... ..je > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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