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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:03:01 +0100 (CET)
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        jkh@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PATCH: sysinstall to remove userconfig code
Message-ID:  <200111132103.fADL32L53365@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011113121440.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> On 13-Nov-01 Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > Makoto Matsushita wrote:
> >> 
> >> Userconfig was gone in 5-current, so we can safely remove kget() from
> >> sysinstall.  Attached below is a patch to do (kget.c should be remove
> >> also).
> > 
> > I don't know -current. what is the feature which replace kget ?
> > does boot -c (or whatever) still exists ? is it possible to
> > edit <KERNEL>.hints at boot time ?
> 
> You can use kenv and just save the ones starting with 'hint' to kernel.conf. 
> kenv dumps the entire kernel environment.  We still need a utility written in

well, kenv is a userland program (which also exists under -stable...
forgot about it) but it is really not comparable to boot -c !
I don't remember if I already use sysinstall to change any kernel value ?

> Forth that the loader can run for the user to modify the hints in the
> environment.

not for me ;^)

thanks anyway for the answer.

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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