From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 14 17:37:58 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA10918 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net [199.45.39.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA10911 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 17:37:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from bellatlantic.net (client201-122-86.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.86]) by smtp-out1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA27686 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:37:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <36C733C0.D630DEC5@bellatlantic.net> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:36:16 +0000 From: Donn Miller X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting ELF kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I put the line "/boot/loader" in /boot.conf just like the docs said (http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html). However, I couldn't enter "-c" to enter userconfig to configure the kernel. When I entered -c at the "boot: " prompt, it didn't go into UserConfig mode, but continued booting (without me being able to configure the kernel). Also, how should rc.conf be handled in the case of an ELF kernel? I still need to load the screensavers, which are LKMS, something AFAIK an ELF system doesn't support. This is handled by rc.conf. But what would I need to do in order to enable something like a screensaver with an ELF kernel? BTW, there's a line in /usr/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf that states "rc.conf" is part of "rc_conf_files", which causes rc.conf to continue sucking in rc.conf in an infinite loop until the system runs out of file descriptors. Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message