On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > A new loader.rc mechanism has been introduced. Nothing has changed > with loader, mind you, and you can continue to use your current > loader.rc (if any) unchanged, but Jordan thinks it might be better > to install a loader.rc using the new mechanism by default, to keep > support easy, so things might change in the future... > > Meanwhile, the new loader.rc stuff, for those who want it. It is > modeled after rc.conf files. We now have a > /boot/defaults/loader.conf, with all defaults (meaning it hardly > does anything, serving more as a template), which will also load > /boot/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf.local, in that order, if > present. > > The idea is to leave /boot/loader.conf for sysinstall, > /boot/loader.conf.local for the user, and /boot/defaults/loader.conf > to installworld. > > To use this, put the following lines in your /boot/loader.rc: > > include /boot/loader.4th > start > > Then you can create a /boot/loader.conf.local with whatever other > stuff you'd like, such as using a splash screen. > > Feedback, comments, musings and flames are welcome. (I'd > particularly like a better name than "start" :)
As long as the man page makes it clear what's going on. All this including of files is going to get damn confusing for newbies. It's also unlike anything i've ever seen before... -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
