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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel C. Sobral
80a1a63ef5 Enhance boot-conf.
Now boot-conf can also receive parameters to be passed to the kernel
being booted. The syntax is the same as in the boot command, so one
boots /kernel.OLD in single-user mode by typing:

boot-conf /kernel.OLD -s   instead of
boot-conf -s /kernel.OLD

The syntax still supports use of directory instead of file name, so

boot-conf kernel.OLD -s

may be used to boot /boot/kernel.OLD/kernel.ko in single-user mode.

Notice that if one passes a flag to boot-conf, it will override the
flags set in .conf files, but only for that invocation. If the user
aborts the countdown and tries again without passing any flags, the
flags set in .conf files will be used.

Some factorization was done in the process of enhancing boot-conf,
as it has been growing steadly as features are getting added, becoming
too big for a Forth word. It still could do with more factorization,
as a matter of fact.

Override the builtin "boot" with something based on boot-conf. It will
behave exactly like boot-conf, but booting directly instead of going
through autoboot.

Since we are now pairing kernel and module set in the same directory,
this change to boot makes sense.
2000-09-08 21:11:57 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
ef34e89ba2 Revert to 1.8 2000-06-14 19:39:31 +00:00
Peter Wemm
49e7f72d87 With apologies to dcs, temporarily comment out the version check code. It
is failing for everybody that I have spoken with that has tried it.

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(root@outback.netplex.com.au, Tue Jun 13 23:26:49 PDT 2000)
Loader version 0.3+ required
Aborted!
start not found

Note that the 0.3+ message is from inside the arch-alpha block, not the
i386 block of code.  And even then, 0.8 is higher than 0.3.

This prevents the rest of the loader.conf stuff working. :-/
2000-06-14 07:18:18 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
d742bdfc76 The word environment? returns a flag indicating whether the variable
was found or not. Fix it's usage. Alas, it caused no problem before,
besides leaving garbage in the stack, because refill, used by [if]
[else] [then], was broken.
2000-06-12 16:45:01 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
e0d83caeed Put some version checking. 2000-06-07 22:19:49 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
c1312289dd Modify boot-conf so it can take a kernel or directory name as
a parameter and dtrt.

Also, make boot-conf always unload first. There wasn't really any
point in not doing this, as the kernel _has_ to be loaded before
any other modules.

Tested by: dwhite
2000-06-07 22:10:05 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
d2290dd57e Add silly password feature. If people want to depend on a flawed
security measures, so be it. It costs us almost nothing.

Document some code in support.4th that I was unable to understand
just by reading.
1999-11-24 17:56:40 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
c4b16f49fc Add "initialize" to loader.4th, so running "start" is not actually needed. 1999-05-14 18:59:27 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
2de24e689e Add loader.4th man page (worst man page I ever wrote -- reviews
are welcomed). Correct a nasty bug in loader.4th before anyone
notices, add a couple of features.
1999-04-24 17:25:35 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
7caa817b0e New loader.rc stuff.
Reviewed by:	jkh
1999-03-09 14:06:55 +00:00