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. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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