From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 4 22:46:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11291 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:46:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles140.castles.com [208.214.165.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11039; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:45:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00390; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 22:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810050549.WAA00390@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Tom Jackson cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRUSH after recompile kernel... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 Oct 1998 17:13:57 CDT." <19981004171357.A318@TOJ.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 22:49:46 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Okay Mike the new commits worked for the boot loader. To get the elf kernel > to work unattended I had to comment out the options DDB and USERCONFIG_BOOT. > There's some confusion out there about boot.conf. My /boot.config has the > '/boot/loader' in it. I don't even know what the /boot/boot.conf is used for > and there should not be a /boot.conf. Will keep fiddling with it, thanks for > enabling me to go ELF, all the way. /boot.config is read by the 'initial' bootstrap, the tool which in turn loads /boot/loader. This is transitional; eventually it will be able to go away. /boot/boot.conf (whose name may yet change, eg. /boot/loader.rc - no firm decisions yet) is read as a startup script by the 'loader' program. It can contain commands for this program; you can get a brief summary of these by typing '?' at the loader prompt. More complete help is still on the whiteboard. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message