Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 15:11:36 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: 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: <199901152011.PAA55837@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jan 1999 10:23:16 PST." <199901151823.KAA01489@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199901151823.KAA01489@dingo.cdrom.com>
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I've been thinking about this same thing, and I thought that relatively static fallback list of environments plus an (persistant) index to tell you what you've tried so far might work. I was considering stealing a byte from the RTC CMOS to hold the state between reboots. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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