From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 8 13: 6:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50C7737B424 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f38K6UM86982 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:06:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B1B3811; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:06:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loader question In-Reply-To: <15056.50143.136761.578801@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 13:06:29 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010408200629.A9B1B3811@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > How do you make the loader _NOT_ load a kernel until after the > countdown? > > On slow media (like NFS boots or VMware, or old AlphaServers) its > really painful to wait for the kernel to unload just so you can unload > it and then load an alternate kernel. This initial load is done by the 4th code. I suspect it is configurable to not do this, but if you want to do it by brute force, nuke loader.rc and do it all by hand. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message