From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 8 2:12:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.icir.org (iguana.icir.org [192.150.187.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7163C37B404 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rizzo@localhost) by iguana.icir.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g28ACdC07114; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:12:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rizzo) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 02:12:39 -0800 From: Luigi Rizzo To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposed patch: kern.bootdev* sysctl variables Message-ID: <20020308021239.C6535@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020308020009.A6535@iguana.icir.org> <3C888DB6.8DF80EE7@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3C888DB6.8DF80EE7@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The main use of this would be picobsd, which does not use the loader: Default: 0:ad(0,a)/kernel boot: WARNING: loader(8) metadata is missing! Copyright (c) 1992-2002 The FreeBSD Project. ... cheers luigi On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 02:08:54AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > (I know it can be perfected by not assuming that > > any hard disk is /dev/ad, but you get the idea...) > > If you grabbed the actual boot information from the > tunables in the loader environment (using TUNABLE > macros), you could get the actual thing. > > To see what's available, do a "set" at the loader prompt. > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message