Subject: Re: BSDi features (was: PAM & Re: BSD Authentication)
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/09/2003 01:38:29
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:41:24PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> The boot.default stuff, well, it's a fair bit of work, but MAN is it useful.
> For those who have never seen it:
> 	* The boot loader loads a file called /etc/boot.default
> 	* It can also take commands entered by hand
> 	* Commands may pass parameters to the rest of the boot loader or
> 	  the kernel

Yeah, it's good stuff. It's been suggested several times that we
implement something like that, but it just never happened. I
believe NetBSD/pc98 has/had something like that..

- Frank

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Frank van der Linden                                            fvdl@netbsd.org
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