Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 09:20:26 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: new loader.rc stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903130910290.340-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <36E5EB27.2E44F17D@newsguy.com>
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On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > A new loader.rc mechanism has been introduced. Nothing has changed > with loader, mind you, and you can continue to use your current > loader.rc (if any) unchanged, but Jordan thinks it might be better > to install a loader.rc using the new mechanism by default, to keep > support easy, so things might change in the future... > > Meanwhile, the new loader.rc stuff, for those who want it. It is > modeled after rc.conf files. We now have a > /boot/defaults/loader.conf, with all defaults (meaning it hardly > does anything, serving more as a template), which will also load > /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local, in that order, if > present. > > The idea is to leave /boot/loader.conf for sysinstall, > /boot/loader.conf.local for the user, and /boot/defaults/loader.conf > to installworld. Daniel, I'm having a little trouble getting this to work. I don't see any kind of example loader.conf, or loader.conf.local, I made the file you asked, below (/boot/loader.rc) ... I didn't have a loader.conf, so on boot, it issues me an error on that. I have a new pnp sound card I have working manually, by donig a boot -c, and issuing the command pnp 1 0 os enable port0 0x534 port2 0x220 irq0 15 drq0 1 drq1 0 This very helpfully shows up in my dmesg, and I get sound, but I want to have this done automatically on boot (no boot -c). My kernel already is correct, so I stuck that line into the otherwise empty loader.conf.local, but it told me that I had a syntax error (on encountering the first "1") and didn't get the configuration done. I checked very carefully, the loader.conf.local does have that exact pnp line I showed. It would help me if you had an example loader.conf and loader.conf.local file hanging around ... and maybe an ls -lR /boot, so I'd know I had a complete set of files. Thanks. > > To use this, put the following lines in your /boot/loader.rc: > > include /boot/loader.4th > start > > Then you can create a /boot/loader.conf.local with whatever other > stuff you'd like, such as using a splash screen. > > Feedback, comments, musings and flames are welcome. (I'd > particularly like a better name than "start" :) > > -- > Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) > dcs@newsguy.com > dcs@freebsd.org > > "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker." > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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