Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 17:46:15 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy banner Message-ID: <199802060146.MAA01957@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Feb 1998 01:05:00 %2B0100." <199802060005.BAA27868@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> According to Mike Smith: > > It occurred to me this morning that the *ideal* behaviour would be as > > follows: > > > > If boot.banner exists, display it, else if boot.help exists, display it. > > Don't have a 'help' command. Instead, if an unrecognised command is > > entered, and finding a kernel named thus fails, look for a file named > > boot.<command> and display it instead. > > > > This lets you have more than one help screen, just for openers. It > > might even reduce the code footprint a little. > > With all these boot.XXXX files, and stuff, isn't it time for doing > /boot/XXXX instead? Seems to me the root should have as few files as > possible. Last time I proposed that, Bruce was rather unhappy about it. IMHO it's the right approach though. -- \\ 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. \\
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