Date: Sun, 7 Nov 1999 13:34:08 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk Message-ID: <19991107133407.B81793@saturn.kn-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <382485B7.A8BDA80D@newsguy.com> References: <199911061143.MAA35365@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911060829110.14199-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> <19991106194256.A45418@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <382485B7.A8BDA80D@newsguy.com>
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On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 04:47:03AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > And if we add a loader command that sets currdev to the first non-floppy > > ufs root found (or could this be done in forth too? :) we could even > > distribute a general emergency-boot-floppy... > > The forth part of loader has a serious problem in that it cannot get > data back from any of the non-forth commands. So, for instance, if > we "set" a variable, there is no way for a program to retrieve the > value the variable has been set to. Oh. (I think I actually already wondered about this once, but thought I just didn't look right...) > > This and a few other things are in my queue for a long time now, but > since nobody has been complaining about it, I let it be... :-) > Well. Anyway if (big if) _I_ wanted to do this I would have done it in the C part anyway, my forth is waay too rusty. :) Regards, -- Juergen Lock <nox.foo@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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