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Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Wemm
ab6859fd2f Fix lookup of module metadata on amd64 systems. While this is in
common code, the non-trivial part is #ifdef'ed and only executes when
loading amd64 kernels. The rest is trivial but needed for the the amd64
case. (Two variables changed from char ** to Elf_Addr).

Approved by:	re (amd64 "low-risk" stuff)
2003-05-12 05:48:09 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
1536224009 Since we insist on loading the POS ACPI by default, give the poor user
instructions on the main help screen for disabling it.
2003-05-05 07:33:12 +00:00
Murray Stokely
dab0c25bf9 Fix a bunch of typos and grammatical errors.
PR:		docs/40234
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>  (mostly)
MFC After:	3 days
2003-05-04 08:23:24 +00:00
Peter Wemm
48a0b96a50 Enable the i386 loader to load and run an amd64 kernel. If this puts
things over floppy size limits, I can exclude it for release builds or
something like that.  Most of the changes are to get the load_elf.c file
into a seperate elf32_ or elf64_ namespace so that you can have two
ELF loaders present at once.  Note that for 64 bit kernels, it actually
starts up the kernel already in 64 bit mode with paging enabled.  This
is really easy because we have a known minimum feature set.

Of note is that for amd64, we have to pass in the bios int 15 0xe821
memory map because once in long mode, you absolutely cannot make VM86
calls.  amd64 does not use 'struct bootinfo' at all.  It is a pure loader
metadata startup, just like sparc64 and powerpc.  Much of the
infrastructure to support this was adapted from sparc64.
2003-05-01 03:56:30 +00:00
Peter Wemm
30f445e056 Zap some a.out leftovers 2003-04-06 06:28:08 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
197e5e73ef Libdisk does not need to include <sys/diskslice.h> any more.
Move the remaining bits of <sys/diskslice.h> to <i386/include/bootinfo.h>

Move i386/pc98 specific bits from <sys/reboot.h> to
<i386/include/bootinfo.h> as well.

Adjust includes in sys/boot accordingly.
2003-04-04 16:35:16 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
ff470880ba Fix a few spelling errors.
Submitted by:	Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.dyndns.org> via -doc.
2003-03-07 03:24:38 +00:00
Sean Chittenden
6087c960b5 Document the tunable kern.ipc.nsfbufs in help.common and loader.8. Small
nearby grammar fixup that saves a line of display while in the loader
(help set tunables), but reuses the line for kern.ipc.nsfbufs.

Approved by:	 roam
2003-03-04 23:46:29 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6de61153e8 FreeBSD 5.0 has stopped shipping /modules 2.5 years ago. Catch
up with this further by excluding /modules from the (default)
kern.module_path.
2003-03-03 22:53:35 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
957a6263b6 Only apply rev 1.10 (which hacks around the i386 boot2 being too big for
both ufs1 and ufs2 support) on i386.
2003-02-25 00:10:20 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
c555826bd7 Revert to old (broken for over 1.5Tb filesystems) version of cgbase
so that boot loader once again will fit.

Sponsored by:   DARPA & NAI Labs.
2003-02-24 04:57:01 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
cbe0d0f670 s/hw.pci_allow_unsupported_io_range/hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range/
The former was incorrect and gave an `unknown oid' error.
2003-02-08 19:39:01 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
a438ad0718 Fix module dependency (pre)loading on sparc64 by relocating the variables
read from the raw kld files.

Submitted by:	Hartmut Brandt <brandt@fokus.gmd.de>
PR:		46870
Tested on:	alpha (obrien), i386, sparc64
2003-01-21 05:46:46 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
bf1446b754 Minimally document hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch.
Requested by:	 Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
2003-01-15 05:26:10 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
3429fab68d Restructure so we can compile UFS1_ONLY, UFS2_ONLY or UFS1_AND_UFS2
versions from the same basic function.
2002-12-14 19:39:44 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8d5d039f80 Uniformly refer to a file system as "file system".
Approved by:	re
2002-12-12 17:26:04 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
ada981b228 Create a new 32-bit fs_flags word in the superblock. Add code to move
the old 8-bit fs_old_flags to the new location the first time that the
filesystem is mounted by a new kernel. One of the unused flags in
fs_old_flags is used to indicate that the flags have been moved.
Leave the fs_old_flags word intact so that it will work properly if
used on an old kernel.

Change the fs_sblockloc superblock location field to be in units
of bytes instead of in units of filesystem fragments. The old units
did not work properly when the fragment size exceeeded the superblock
size (8192). Update old fs_sblockloc values at the same time that
the flags are moved.

Suggested by:	BOUWSMA Barry <freebsd-misuser@netscum.dyndns.dk>
Sponsored by:   DARPA & NAI Labs.
2002-11-27 02:18:58 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
df86a3fec1 Eliminate references to defunct kernel tunables.
Approved by:	re
PR:		bin/43343
2002-11-26 13:55:50 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
6b501f246a Document loader tunables hw.pci.enable_io_modes and
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range.

Submitted by:	 Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com>
Approved by:	 re (murray)
2002-11-13 09:43:53 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
d7545b110c Loader tunable 'machdep.disable_mtrrs'.
Sysctl of same name to reflect status.

Submitted by:	 jhb
Approved by:	 re (murray)
MFC after:	 1 day
2002-11-13 09:37:43 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
7cf5744b6b It seems that the only problem with UFS2 booting on i386 is the 64bit
divide/remainder calls.  For reasons not resolved, compiling the
relevant routines from libkern into boot2 results in stack corruption.

Do the simple thing: Don't use 64bit divide/remainder operations.

Sponsored by:	DARPA & NAI Labs
2002-10-08 15:46:45 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
5765b4ef72 Move the definition of UFS1_ONLY into the Makefiles where it belongs.
Sponsored by:	DARPA & NAI Labs.
2002-10-07 08:09:20 +00:00
Mitsuru IWASAKI
6c40705212 s/hint.acpi.0.disable/hint.acpi.0.disabled/
Fix device hints entry for disabling acpi(4).
This also should fix the arbitration with apm(4) when both drivers
are enabled.

Note that your /boot/device.hints needs to be updated if you want to
stop auto-loading acpi.ko or disable acpi(4).
2002-08-30 11:11:07 +00:00
Peter Wemm
ba568b7e46 Actually remove the stale a.out kld support. This is the stuff that was
never updated for the metadata infrastructure.
2002-08-29 23:02:37 +00:00
Peter Wemm
e581f644a4 Initiate deorbit burn of i386 a.out kld "support" in loader. Note that
this was quite broken, it never was updated for metadata support.
The a.out kld file support was never really used, as it wasn't necessary.
You could always load elf kld's, even in an a.out kernel.
2002-08-29 02:02:28 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
be0056cdab mdoc(7) police: revert unapproved changes in rev. 1.43, added missing markup bits in rev. 1.45. 2002-08-13 15:06:48 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
ac03993585 Restore autoloading of ACPI module.
Document the approved ways of disabling it.
Submitted by:	Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
2002-08-09 06:07:33 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
f739b33f57 Stash various networking paramters in the environment for the kernel
to pick up, ala pxe.
2002-07-31 20:17:06 +00:00
Giorgos Keramidas
955f24e6b7 Use present tense in all the verbs, when describing loader's startup.
Most of them are not in a future tense already.
2002-07-15 03:39:34 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
74026cdab0 The .Nm 2002-07-14 15:19:46 +00:00
Mark Peek
b0677c345c Change help documentation for bootfile and module_path to reflect
the actual code. Both use a ";" (not a ",") to delimit entries.

PR:		39679
Submitted by:	Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
MFC after:	3 days
2002-07-07 20:40:31 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
dd200e5643 Enable UFS1_AND_UFS2 support for sparc64 by default. Booting from ufs1 or
ufs2 filesystems seems to work fine.
2002-06-21 22:33:56 +00:00
Kirk McKusick
1c85e6a35d This commit adds basic support for the UFS2 filesystem. The UFS2
filesystem expands the inode to 256 bytes to make space for 64-bit
block pointers. It also adds a file-creation time field, an ability
to use jumbo blocks per inode to allow extent like pointer density,
and space for extended attributes (up to twice the filesystem block
size worth of attributes, e.g., on a 16K filesystem, there is space
for 32K of attributes). UFS2 fully supports and runs existing UFS1
filesystems. New filesystems built using newfs can be built in either
UFS1 or UFS2 format using the -O option. In this commit UFS1 is
the default format, so if you want to build UFS2 format filesystems,
you must specify -O 2. This default will be changed to UFS2 when
UFS2 proves itself to be stable. In this commit the boot code for
reading UFS2 filesystems is not compiled (see /sys/boot/common/ufsread.c)
as there is insufficient space in the boot block. Once the size of the
boot block is increased, this code can be defined.

Things to note: the definition of SBSIZE has changed to SBLOCKSIZE.
The header file <ufs/ufs/dinode.h> must be included before
<ufs/ffs/fs.h> so as to get the definitions of ufs2_daddr_t and
ufs_lbn_t.

Still TODO:
Verify that the first level bootstraps work for all the architectures.
Convert the utility ffsinfo to understand UFS2 and test growfs.
Add support for the extended attribute storage. Update soft updates
to ensure integrity of extended attribute storage. Switch the
current extended attribute interfaces to use the extended attribute
storage. Add the extent like functionality (framework is there,
but is currently never used).

Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
Reviewed by:	Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org>
2002-06-21 06:18:05 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
3795d538a8 Make sparc64 share ufsread.c with i386.
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
2002-06-05 12:00:53 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
6b8fc95f49 Indent this file more like style(9).
Sponsored by: DARPA & NAI Labs.
2002-06-05 11:20:37 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
833468e219 Preparation for UFS2 commit:
Factor the ufs reading code out of the i386/boot2 loader so it can
be reused by for instance sparc64.

Sponsored by: DARPA and NAI Labs.
2002-06-05 11:10:38 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
ece450c42f Fix a handful of typos and grammar bogons. No content changes.
Translators can ignore this commit.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-05-29 22:57:18 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
54fd053e6c We don't need bootinfo any more, and sparc64 doesn't have it anyways. 2002-05-10 01:20:37 +00:00
Peter Wemm
31c41f1b1e Bandaid for a buffer overrun in the module searching code. When breaking
up the module_path string, we would walk one past the end of the buffer.
This hurting ia64 originally, but it was probably also happening on i386
occasionally as well.  The effects were usually harmless, it would add
bogus "binary" search directories to the places it actually looked for
files.
2002-04-11 10:00:44 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
231b8f199f Upgrade FICL to 3.02. Forgot this one, sorry.
PR:		36308
Submitted by:	dcs
2002-04-09 20:59:34 +00:00
Jake Burkholder
bb75d97e13 Fix another unsigned long used to index the symbol table which should be
Elf_Hashelt.
2002-04-09 00:05:46 +00:00
Peter Wemm
93b4f334b6 Use the correct elf hash table entry type. This matches a similar fix
in the kernel side of things some time ago.  The hash table entries are
always 32 bits wide, even on 64 bit machines.
2002-04-06 04:09:42 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
ef313bf935 Not all platforms have and want a.out format support. 2002-03-28 01:28:21 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
03d1b8bc94 Remove __P. 2002-03-20 08:00:54 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
3a3c44ac20 mdoc(7) police: fix a typo and markup. 2002-03-15 15:12:10 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
5616599331 CG superfluous prototype. 2002-03-10 22:33:04 +00:00
Bruce Evans
0c6ec4aca0 Declare time(not3) instead of depending on namespace pollution 3 layers
deep in <stand.h> to eventually include <time.h> to declare the user
version.

This is not quite the right place to declare it, but <stand.h> would
be worse because time() is very MD so it isn't in libstand.

Many places in the boot sources still get the user version using only
1 layer of pollution (#include <sys/time.h>.  Some pollute themselves
directly (#include <time.h>).  But the boot Makefiles are too broken
to enable warnings for redeclarations.
2002-02-25 04:31:25 +00:00
Bruce Evans
fa883367ab Removed mounds of unused variables. 2002-02-25 03:45:09 +00:00
Chad David
8c09f6fb1f Document the hw.physmem kernel environment variable.
Reviewed by:	alfred
2002-02-21 05:15:52 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
21367f05ab CG hard sentence breaks.
Submitted by:	ru
2002-01-23 09:35:55 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
dcd7d9b7b7 Allow dump device be configured as early as possible using loader(8) tunable.
This allows obtaining crash dumps from the panics occured during late stages
of kernel initialisation before system enters into single-user mode.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-01-21 01:16:11 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
34a5940b8c mdoc(7) police: remove hard sentence break which I didn't
submit to Jonathan Mini.
2001-12-14 09:06:11 +00:00
John Baldwin
0889b9be41 - Add 'fwrite' and 'fseek' words for writing to and seeking on files.
- Change the 'fopen' keyword to accept a mode parameter.  Note that this
  will break existing 4th scripts that use fopen.  Thus, the loader
  version has been bumped and loader.4th has been changed to check for a
  sufficient version on i386 and alpha.  Be sure that you either do a full
  world build or install or full build and install of sys/boot after this
  since loader.old won't work with the new 4th files and vice versa.

PR:		kern/32389
Submitted by:	Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
Sponsored by:	ClickArray, Inc.
2001-12-11 00:49:34 +00:00
John Baldwin
4543c86ece Add support for writing blocks to the loader's disk cache.
PR:		kern/32389
Submitted by:	Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
Sponsored by:	ClickArray, Inc.
2001-12-11 00:10:00 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
6e551fb628 Update to C99, s/__FUNCTION__/__func__/,
also don't use ANSI string concatenation.
2001-12-10 08:09:49 +00:00
Robert Watson
63ea1e904c o Expand list of tunables documented in loader.8 to include kern.maxusers,
since other related tunables were also documented here.  Add a cross
  reference to tuning(7) for information on setting this value
  appropriately.
2001-12-07 18:05:24 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
cb36afb649 The entry for the 'set' command no longer has a list of variables.
PR:		32454
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
MFC after:	3 days
2001-12-04 12:01:00 +00:00
Murray Stokely
3bbde73c29 Fix typo.
PR:		32455
Submitted by:	"Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
2001-12-03 06:00:24 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
605f755d8a Waits for a keypress before rebooting on panic.
PR:		kern/32351
Submitted by:	Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
MFC after:	1 week
2001-11-28 14:00:36 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
03820e7a36 Upper case the FreeBSD loader prompt.
On OFW based machines, it is just too confusing having the firmware and
OS loader giving the same prompt.  This is a nice compromise that 99% of the
users on non-OFW platforms will probably not even notice.
2001-11-19 17:30:26 +00:00
Ian Dowse
7b9716bad2 Fix a number of misspellings of "dependency" and "dependencies" in
comments and function names.

PR:		kern/8589
Submitted by:	Rajesh Vaidheeswarran <rv@fore.com>
2001-11-16 21:08:40 +00:00
Bill Fenner
ce20386909 Initialize first to -1; this will create a (nearly) empty file on failure,
instead of looping until the disk is full.  This kind of failure can
especially happen when a version of awk that doesn't support POSIX
character classes is used.

Submitted by:	David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
2001-11-07 17:53:25 +00:00
John Baldwin
9248a89d0b Add a DEVT_CD type for CD drivers. 2001-11-05 18:51:47 +00:00
John Baldwin
f0699bb775 Print out 'foo devices:' as the line before displaying a group of
devices in 'lsdev' output rather than printing out a pointer to the
print function since the user really could care less about the pointer
value.  Perhaps this was intended to be a debugging printf?
2001-11-04 02:58:39 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
5daeec1454 Revert rev 1.3 which moved us away from POSIX character classes.
The community feels our base AWK must handle them.
2001-11-03 01:35:07 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
3a167df8c3 Bell-Labs AWK does not support POSIX "bracket expressions" (POSIXese for
"character classes", basically).  So change them to their character
representation.

Submitted by:	David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
2001-11-01 07:16:35 +00:00
Mike Silbersack
0742c2bb67 grammar fix: to -> too 2001-10-01 23:41:13 +00:00
Peter Wemm
505222d35f Implement the long-awaited module->file cache database. A userland
tool (kldxref(8)) keeps a cache of what modules and versions are inside
what .ko files.  I have tested this on both Alpha and i386.

Submitted by:	bp
2001-09-11 01:09:24 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
3faf1df3a7 mdoc(7) police: markup nits. 2001-08-20 08:55:07 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
2f9e4e8025 Limit the amount of KVM reserved for the buffer cache and for swap-meta
information.  The default limits only effect machines with > 1GB of ram
and can be overriden with two new kernel conf variables VM_SWZONE_SIZE_MAX
and VM_BCACHE_SIZE_MAX, or with loader variables kern.maxswzone and
kern.maxbcache.  This has the effect of leaving more KVM available for
sizing NMBCLUSTERS and 'maxusers' and should avoid tripups where a sysad
adds memory to a machine and then sees the kernel panic on boot due to
running out of KVM.

Also change the default swap-meta auto-sizing calculation to allocate half
of what it was previously allocating.  The prior defaults were way too high.
Note that we cannot afford to run out of swap-meta structures so we still
stay somewhat conservative here.
2001-08-20 00:41:12 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
94ba280c59 mdoc(7) police: join split punctuation to macro calls. 2001-08-10 17:35:21 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
02c4d9cff7 Remove whitespace at EOL. 2001-07-15 08:21:37 +00:00
David Malone
5e209ca776 Get rid of some constness warnings. 2001-06-24 12:08:47 +00:00
Peter Wemm
5c9321595d Convert the elf loader to the new linker set layout for elf files.
This should make dependencies at load time work like before.  Oops.

Noticed by:	markm
2001-06-19 07:41:07 +00:00
Peter Wemm
357f511a58 Fix some of the worst formatting bug (seperate commit) 2001-06-19 06:48:58 +00:00
Peter Wemm
44fa54f5f6 Nuke old gensetdefs based linker sets with extreme prejudice 2001-06-14 01:23:57 +00:00
Jesper Skriver
48e312be90 Fix a minor style bug in the last commit.
Submitted by:	Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
MFC after:	2 days
2001-06-10 11:15:37 +00:00
Jesper Skriver
961c53b8e4 In sys/boot/common/module.c, near line 105 a request for a raw
file is processed by passing its name in argv[1]:
        return(mod_loadobj(typestr, argv[1]));
however, it is not tested to see if argv[1] actually is defined.

At best, mod_loadobj() near line 244 returns an error like
"can't find 'garbage'" but if the "filename" entered is sufficiently
long, some buffer gets overrun. Of course, "load -t filename" is
actually a typo because we meant to type "load -t mfs_root filename";
nevertheless, a hung machine seems like too harsh a punishment for
such a small typo...

PR:			i386/27693
Submitted by:	Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch>
MFC after:	1 week
2001-05-27 23:26:11 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
aa7664372f MAN[1-9] -> MAN. 2001-03-27 11:59:22 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
afcf05e46a setlocale(3) has been fixed to match POSIX standard:
LC_ALL takes precedence over other LC_* envariables.
2001-03-02 16:52:14 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c2d03ea879 Eliminate mdocNG warnings caused by misplaced or extraneous macro calls. 2001-02-28 17:38:53 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
32e1d1c252 Whenever the user might be offered a chance to quit through
pager_output(), respect that choice.

PR: 15747
2001-02-22 11:22:14 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
d0353b836e mdoc(7) police: split punctuation characters + misc fixes. 2001-02-01 16:38:02 +00:00
Poul-Henning Kamp
0d7b8d16dc Use <sys/queue.h> macro API.
Submitted by:	"Jason" <jsmethers@pdq.net>
Reviewed by:	/sbin/md5
2000-12-30 20:40:16 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f53fadafee Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2000-12-27 16:37:32 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c5f49c2585 mdoc(7) police: removed duplicate .Os call. 2000-12-14 12:48:07 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
f4d874a1db mdoc(7) police: do not split author names in the AUTHORS section. 2000-11-22 09:35:58 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
d5874785b9 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 17:05:46 +00:00
Mike Smith
1d6dc22916 The default kernel filename is "kernel" again, not "kernel.ko".
Submitted by:	mckusick
2000-11-17 04:43:56 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
b5c508fba3 Use Fx macro wherever possible. 2000-11-14 11:20:58 +00:00
Benno Rice
4cc1860f9b OpenFirmware/PowerPC loader, part 2.
As of this patchset, the loader builds (under NetBSD/macppc), boots, interacts
and talks to BOOTP/NFS servers.

(main.c was moved from boot/ofw/libofw to boot/ofw/common but has no revision
 history)

Reviewed by:	obrien
2000-11-10 06:39:58 +00:00
Benno Rice
f1fb6c2132 Give the network device a print method.
Reviewed by:	obrien
2000-11-10 06:37:43 +00:00
Doug Rabson
bcdb85b6b8 Don't indirect through a null pointer if we run out of kernel filenames. 2000-10-25 23:28:19 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
c888e59b84 The default search path for kernel and modules was bogus. It makes no
sense for /boot/kernel to come last.
2000-09-16 19:59:41 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
9f0c5de5f7 Start countdown only _after_ the kernel was loaded. Not very fair otherwise. 2000-09-15 07:54:10 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
2ae7c98e29 Change NOFORTH comment character from # to \ followed by space,
to make things more interchangeable between it and the FORTH case.

Perhaps requiring the space is a bit too much, but...

Nothing in the tree seems to produce loader.rc files with comment
line, at this time.
2000-09-10 13:48:51 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
869e9b2096 Update boot and boot-conf descriptions to reflect new and old changes.
Add a warning in loader(8) that boot might be changed by loader.4th.
2000-09-08 21:39:31 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
3053524c85 Make the pnp structure a global variable, so it can be used elsewhere. 2000-09-08 16:51:29 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
59549c5031 Fix autoboot. Now autoboot *always* show the correct kernel name. It
gets the name from the environment variable kernelname, which is set
when a kernel is loaded. For this reason, autoboot will _first_ try
to load a kernel, and only proceed with the wait prompt after that
succeeds. If it fails, it will abort immediately.

While I understand some may think this behavior undesirable, I think
it is, overall, the best thing to do, even if we do not consider the
aesthetic issue. Notice that anyone using the default loader.rc
already has the kernel loaded before autoboot.

On unload, unset kernelname.

Separate the code that tries to load a kernel from the list of options
to the function loadakernel(). It is used by both boot() and
autoboot().
2000-09-08 16:47:05 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
db266683d3 With the committed changes to the loaders modules path code, the kernel
path does not need to be hard coded.
2000-09-06 20:50:24 +00:00