In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Wemm writes: : Warner Losh wrote: : > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cyrille Lefevre writes : : : > : Warner Losh wrote: : > : > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cyrille Lefevre wr : ites: : > : > : I don't know -current. what is the feature which replace kget ? : > : > : does boot -c (or whatever) still exists ? is it possible to : > : > : edit <KERNEL>.hints at boot time ? : > : > : > : > set/unset works. : > : > : > : > I've removed ISA devices at boot time by unsetting the 'at' hint. : > : : > : thanks for the trick. but show/set/unset are really less intuitive : > : than boot -c, specifically to novice users. unfortunately, I'm not : > : forth aware at all, so, don't ask me about writting such tool using : > : forth :P : > : > Right. There is a forth tool available (authored I think by : > matsushita-san), and now that matsushita-san is a committer, maybe it : > will be done in time for 5.0. :-) : : As a fallback, I've been threatening to do a simple userconfig-style : thing in loader itself as a fallback if necessary.. I'd rather not since : that would just make loader bigger still, but it's always there as : a quick/dirty fallback option. : : If my memory serves me correctly, we dont enable bootforth on the 5.0 boot : floppies. This is probably more a symptom of having an identical config : for floppies and cd boot. Now that we have cdboot for i386 all but there, : we should be able to finally do a complete boot for the CD case and a : smaller stripped kernel with esoteric drivers on a seperate disk for the : floppy-only case.
Actually, now that I think about it, the module I saw was in 'C'. So someone needs to learn forth to do this. :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
