Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:24:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting issues Message-ID: <199804162124.OAA01210@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:54:32 %2B0200." <Pine.NEB.3.95.980416204740.24856A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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> I have a suggestion: could we change the messages "Can't find > kernel.conf" etc. to something less scary for the new user? Something like > "Using default config (no /kernel.conf)". General consensus is that the messages are spurious. The defenders of these messages are, however, firmly entrenched. Creating an empty /kernel.conf file is a trivial workaround. > And another issue: some time ago there was very animated discussion about > "/boot.banner". Is this idea being implemented by someone, or it just > died off? There is no space in the current booblocks, and their future is limited. > And yet another (CAM related): does present bootblock allow to use the > "da" instead of "sd"? No, although if you were to submit such a trivial patch to the CAM developers I'm sure they'd accept it. -- \\ 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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