From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 11 9:35:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC13F37B405; Sat, 11 May 2002 09:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0191.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.191] helo=mindspring.com) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 176Zq2-0007IS-00; Sat, 11 May 2002 09:35:18 -0700 Message-ID: <3CDD4828.27B877D7@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 11 May 2002 09:34:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Gordon Tetlow Subject: Re: nextboot loader diff References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > Terry, please see that Gordon isn't trying to reimplement Whistle's nextboot. > > Personally, I'm tired of missing the window in the loader to boot a test > kernel, so what I want is to do 'nextboot foo -s' to boot /boot/foo/kernel > into single user mode on the next boot and fall back to /boot/kernel/kernel > on the next boot after that. [ ... ] > Repeat after me: This nextboot != Interjet nextboot. Repeat after Gordon: Gordon Tetlow writes: ] Is there anything that is wrong with the conceptual implementation of the ] nextboot loader code that I've submitted? It definitely needs a code ] cleanup on the forth side (which I'm not qualified to do), but if there ] are no other objections, I'd really like to see this code committed. He solicited comments/objections. I've commented/objected. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message