Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 23:02:56 +0400 From: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern.bootfile... Message-ID: <199906081902.XAA35913@arc.hq.cti.ru> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:38:56 MDT." <199906081838.MAA30040@panzer.plutotech.com>
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> Well, here's what happens with that patch: > > {subway:/usr/home/ken:2:0} sysctl -a |grep kernel > kern.bootfile: //kernel.test > > netstat, etc., works okay, probably because the leading slash is discarded. > > And here's what happens without the patch, when kernel.test2 is booted: > > {subway:/usr/home/ken:1:0} sysctl -a |grep kernel > kern.bootfile: /kernel Uh, I am even more confused. When I tried to use bootinfo.booted_kernel to get the name of the kernel, it did contain only the last component and didn't contain any slash. I have had a code that deal with all the cases I could imagine, but decided to not commit it as it looks too large for such a simple job. > > Could it have something to do with the boot loader? /boot/loader is from > my buildworld on Saturday, but one thing I've noticed is that the text that > comes up before the boot loader prompt ("FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, > Revision 0.1") is dated September, 1998. So it sort of seems like > /boot/loader may not be what is used here.. Perhaps. It seems like boot1 used /boot/boot2 at some point. I don't have this file here :-). Dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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