Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:34:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff Message-ID: <3CDD4828.27B877D7@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20020511112241.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > Terry, please see that Gordon isn't trying to reimplement Whistle's nextboot. > > Personally, I'm tired of missing the window in the loader to boot a test > kernel, so what I want is to do 'nextboot foo -s' to boot /boot/foo/kernel > into single user mode on the next boot and fall back to /boot/kernel/kernel > on the next boot after that. [ ... ] > Repeat after me: This nextboot != Interjet nextboot. Repeat after Gordon: Gordon Tetlow writes: ] Is there anything that is wrong with the conceptual implementation of the ] nextboot loader code that I've submitted? It definitely needs a code ] cleanup on the forth side (which I'm not qualified to do), but if there ] are no other objections, I'd really like to see this code committed. He solicited comments/objections. I've commented/objected. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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