Subject: boot message misleading...
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Head Anarchy Conquest Knight Esquire of the Realm <jgraham@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/11/1995 11:30:24
 * boot : [[fd(0,4)]/netbsd][-adrs]] :-

The NetBSD bootloader for the x86 (and possibly others, I don't know)
is kind of misleading.  The first time I saw this, I wasn't sure
if it was telling me that options 'adrs' were accepted, or if I was
supposed to supply -<address> (AdDReSs) as a start point.

Since tweaking load addresses as boot-time arguments is not quite
grasshopper -- uh, cricket (or whatever), I am assuming that it accepts
one or more of -a, -d, -r, -s, which "obviously" makes more sense. :-)

It still took me by surprise, lexicographical sort notwithstanding.



				--*greywolf;
--
The only thing more traumatic than bootstrapping a compiler is bootstrapping
a debugger.
	-- from the notebooks of another heretic.