Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:57:11 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@internetcds.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can the bootloader create a file or set a flag in the bootblocks? Message-ID: <199901151957.LAA02063@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:56:54 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901151455480.4816-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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> On Fri, 15 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Obviously we can't write to CDROMs, but a persistence mechanism needs > > to work with each of these others. I've been leaning towards a very > > simple solution using a small, preallocated file which we just > > overwrite. It's not beautiful, but it's workable. > > It can't go into free space in a boot block? We still have room left over... > It could only be a few bytes, enumerating numbered kernels in /boot/kernels.rc, > or something like that It needs to be a general solution, and see above, again, for the things it needs to be able to do. -- \\ 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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