Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:57:00 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot boot.c Message-ID: <3303AA4C.41C67EA6@whistle.com> References: <199702131315.FAA09941@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote: > > bde 97/02/13 05:15:49 > > Modified: sys/i386/boot/biosboot boot.c > Log: > Get defaults for the boot device (and flags) from the file > "boot.config" (relative to the root directory on the 'a' partition > on the first BSD slice) if it exists. If it doesn't exist, then > the only visible changes should be that the kernel name isn't reset > to "/kernel" after looking it up fails and that the default name > is now "kernel". > > The new function readfile() can be used for other things: > - reading help messages. > - reading splash screens. > - reading userconfig info. > > Revision Changes Path > 1.62 +48 -16 src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c neat, except there is no backout, which is needed to recover from a bad kernel automatically. ( the reason I didn't do this with the 'nextboot' option.)
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