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Date:      Thu, 4 Mar 1999 18:05:07 -0500
From:      "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com>
To:        Chris <chrismar@readington.com>
Cc:        Jeff Ehrenkrantz <admin@Gccomm.Net>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Boot -c   in 3.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <19990304180507.B1316@dmaddox.conterra.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903041640210.19296-100000@walnut.readington.com>; from Chris on Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 04:40:52PM -0500
References:  <19990301172745.A1281@dmaddox.conterra.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903041640210.19296-100000@walnut.readington.com>

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Ok, you're crazy :-)

No, really, I made a typo in my reply...  I meant to write
/boot/boot.conf, not /boot/boot.config, but I have found out
since writing this that, at least in -current (not sure about
3.1R), the preferred file name is now /boot/loader.rc,
although /boot/boot.conf will still work.

Sorry about that...

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 04:40:52PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> Call me crazy, but this doesn't seem to work.  I must have tried this 5
> times last night and I still had to boot -c and enter everything by hand.
> 
> Chris
> 
> On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Donald J . Maddox wrote:
> 
> > In aout systems, the 'dset' program was used to write configuration
> > changes directly to the aout kernel image.  It doesn't work with ELF
> > kernels.  A utility called 'kget' was recently added to the -current
> > tree to do something similar for ELF kernels, but that doesn't help
> > you much...
> > 
> > You need to create a /boot/boot.config file that contains at least
> > these lines:
> > 
> > load kernel
> > load -t userconfig_script /boot/kernel.conf
> > 
> > Then, you need to create a /boot/kernel.conf file that contains the
> > commands that you would normally type at the config> prompt.
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 06:52:32AM -0500, Jeff Ehrenkrantz wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >  I recently Installed 3.1 Release on a drive having the old boot blocks.
> > > Thus it is necessary for me to do a "boot -c" to tweak an Ethernet isa
> > > address.  Although the system does work after this tweak. The change does
> > > not get stored. This system is a minimum hard drive/system install so I
> > > don't have the space to compile a custom kernel at this point. Can someone
> > > tell me why the changes don't get saved? & any chance I can binary edit the
> > > Generic Kernel to take care of my prob. Or is there some other solution
> > > available
> > > Regards.... ..je
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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