Subject: Re: boot without init.
To: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU>
From: Head Anarchy Conquest Knight Esquire of the Realm <greywolf@defender.vas.viewlogic.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/10/1995 10:23:31
Well, there is that, but I figure that in that case one would use -i -a
as args to /netbsd (the '-a' meaning "ask", the '-i' meaning "use alternate
init").
I guess I meant what I said, just didn't come out right:
Boot: /netbsd -i path_to_init
and have the kernel parse the args (the bootloader just has to pass the
args to the kernel).
Am I making sense at all?
[On a different tangent, I've thought of writing a sun-like boot monitor
for the '386 which would provide some of the semantics of the sun PROM
monitor and implement *that* as something of a 0'th level boot program,
or have it supplant /boot entirely. Something which one could interrupt
and set/check system configs and such. Probably more trouble than it's
worth and likely ugly as well, but I think that the thought is not entirely
out of place.]
#define AUTHOR "Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU (Chris G Demetriou)"
/*
* actually, it would be even easier to give '-i" to the kernel, and have
* the kernel as for init's name itself...
^^
[typo detected; assuming you meant 'ask'...]
*
*
*
* cgd
*
*/
#undef AUTHOR /* "Chris_G_Demetriou@BALVENIE.PDL.CS.CMU.EDU (Chris G Demetriou)" */
--*greywolf;
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