From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 7 0:35: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54F2F14C31 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 00:35:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p24-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.153]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id RAA26218; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 17:34:41 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <382485B7.A8BDA80D@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 07 Nov 1999 04:47:03 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juergen Lock Cc: Matt Behrens , zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911061143.MAA35365@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <19991106194256.A45418@saturn.kn-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message