From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 5 16:09:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01481 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ocean.campus.luth.se (ocean.campus.luth.se [130.240.194.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01307 for ; Thu, 5 Feb 1998 16:07:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se) Received: (from karpen@localhost) by ocean.campus.luth.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27868; Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:05:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from karpen) From: Mikael Karpberg Message-Id: <199802060005.BAA27868@ocean.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: boot floppy banner In-Reply-To: <199802051144.WAA00426@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Feb 5, 98 10:14:09 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 01:05:00 +0100 (CET) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe hackers" According to Mike Smith: > It occurred to me this morning that the *ideal* behaviour would be as > follows: > > If boot.banner exists, display it, else if boot.help exists, display it. > Don't have a 'help' command. Instead, if an unrecognised command is > entered, and finding a kernel named thus fails, look for a file named > boot. and display it instead. > > This lets you have more than one help screen, just for openers. It > might even reduce the code footprint a little. With all these boot.XXXX files, and stuff, isn't it time for doing /boot/XXXX instead? Seems to me the root should have as few files as possible. /Mikael