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Date:      Sun, 08 Apr 2001 13:06:29 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: loader question 
Message-ID:  <20010408200629.A9B1B3811@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <15056.50143.136761.578801@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> 

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Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> How do you make the loader _NOT_ load a kernel until after the
> countdown?
> 
> On slow media (like NFS boots or VMware, or old AlphaServers) its
> really painful to wait for the kernel to unload just so you can unload
> it and then load an alternate kernel.

This initial load is done by the 4th code.  I suspect it is configurable
to not do this, but if you want to do it by brute force, nuke loader.rc
and do it all by hand.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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