Commit Graph

15 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Mike Smith
73332890ea Walk around the end of all the silly guessing of device types and unit
numbers that we have been doing in the past, and read /etc/fstab off the
proposed root filesystem to determine the actual device name and vfs
type for the root filesystem.  These are then exported to the kernel
via the environment variable vfs.root.mountfrom.
1999-07-21 00:08:54 +00:00
Nick Hibma
1854719067 The boot countdown timer says it will boot in 1 seconds,
which is grammatically incorrect.

PR:		12628
Submitted-By:	R. Matthew Emerson <rme@nightfly.apk.net>
1999-07-15 20:40:52 +00:00
Doug Rabson
75aeebed71 Typo: "can't boot 'boot'" should be "can't boot 'kernel'" 1999-05-30 10:45:03 +00:00
Brian Somers
8a768b4324 Always output a linefeed when we've decided whether to boot
or display a loader prompt; either we've said
"Booting [%s]..." or we've received a non-line-feed character
and need a '\n' anyway.
1999-05-28 08:01:52 +00:00
Mike Smith
3c0efe5da1 Standardise on ';' as a component separator; it seems to be a little more
common than ','.
1998-11-02 16:55:57 +00:00
Doug Rabson
06feb69276 * Extend the memory available for the heap from 256k to 512k.
* Embed the stack into the bss section for loader and netboot.  This
  is required for netboot since otherwise the stack would be inside our
  heap.
* Install loader and netboot in /boot by default.
* Fix getbootfile so that it searches for a ',' instead of a ';'
  when terminating the filename.
1998-10-31 17:12:32 +00:00
Mike Smith
dc8be6a8f5 - Add a new command 'lsdev' to list devices which might be likely to host
filesystems.
 - New 'help' command and data in the help.* files (not yet installed),
   provides topic and subtopic help, indexes, etc.
 - Don't crash if the user tries to set an invalid console.  Be helpful
   instead.
 - Expand tabs (badly) on the i386 video console.
 - Some minor cosmetic changes.
1998-10-31 02:53:12 +00:00
Peter Wemm
adf45b4bb5 Tweak the output one more time again. The kernel or module pathname
is useful, and usually fits all on one line with the load sizes.
1998-10-14 00:41:17 +00:00
Peter Wemm
450caa170f Cosmetic: After the autoboot timeout, print a \n. 1998-10-11 10:10:41 +00:00
Mike Smith
b820c8e626 - VERBOSE_LS is obsolete, as the heap is much better behaved now.
- Don't whine about nodes we can't stat(); these are usually
   symlinks that lead out of the filesystem.
 - Autoboot is now controlled by $autoboot_delay, which is a value
   in seconds or NO to disable autoboot.
 - Don't autoboot at the end of boot.conf if we have already tried.
 - Add a 'read' command to complement 'echo'.  Both are still hidden.
 - Improve the 'source' command/function so that it is possible to
   source scripts off removable media.  The entire script is read and
   saved before beginning execution.  Script lines beginning with
   '@' will not be echoed when being executed.  Script execution will
   normally terminate at the first error, however if the script line
   begins with '-' this behaviour is overriden for that command.
1998-10-07 02:38:26 +00:00
Mike Smith
f9ba80b0e7 boot.c
Increase the robustness of the "is it time to boot yet" test;
	if the time skipped the "when" time, we would miss it.
	Don't spin in an endless loop if we don't find the first possible
	kernel suggested.  When we run out, don't try to load an empty
	kernel name.

load_aout.c
	printf format warnings
1998-10-02 16:22:26 +00:00
Peter Wemm
29a1d9c4e6 Use the variable with the path in it for the error message. 1998-09-28 22:03:01 +00:00
Mike Smith
c73b70eec4 Bootloader update.
- Implement a new copyin/readin interface for loading modules.
   This allows the module loaders to become MI, reducing code duplication.
 - Simplify the search for an image activator for the loaded kernel.
 - Use the common module management code for all module metadata.
 - Add an 'unload' command that throws everything away.
 - Move the a.out module loader to MI code, add support for a.out
   kld modules.

Submitted by:	Alpha changes fixed by Doug Rabson <dfr@freebsd.org>
1998-08-31 21:10:43 +00:00
Mike Smith
c2f9d95de5 This is the new unified bootstrap, sometimes known previously as the
'three-stage' bootstrap.
There are a number of caveats with the code in its current state:
 - The i386 bootstrap only supports booting from a floppy.
 - The kernel and kld do not yet know how to deal with the extended
   information and module summary passed in.
 - PnP-based autodetection and demand loading of modules is not implemented.
 - i386 ELF kernel loading is not ready yet.
 - The i386 bootstrap is loaded via an ugly blockmap.

On the alpha, both net- and disk-booting (SRM console machines only) is
supported.  No blockmaps are used by this code.

Obtained from:	Parts from the NetBSD/i386 standalone bootstrap.
1998-08-21 03:17:42 +00:00