| Test it and commit it :-) 
 
 christos On Apr 28, 2025, at 5:38 PM, Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> wrote: 
 On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Christos Zoulas wrote:Perhaps:
  Looks good - please go ahead and commit.  Or let me knnow if Ishould do it.RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot2.c,v retrieving revision 1.80 diff -u -p -u -r1.80 boot2.c --- boot2.c     26 Apr 2025 20:17:36 -0000      1.80 +++ boot2.c     28 Apr 2025 20:47:31 -0000 @@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ static const char *default_part_name;
  char *sprint_bootsel(const char *); static void bootit(const char *, int); +static void bootit2(const char *, size_t, int); void boot2(int, uint64_t);
  void   command_help(char *); @@ -473,6 +474,14 @@ command_quit(char *arg)       panic("Could not reboot!"); }
  +static void +bootit2(char *path, size_t plen, int howto) +{ +       bootit(path, howto); +       snprintf(path, plen, "%s.gz", path); +       bootit(path, howto | AB_VERBOSE); +} + void command_boot(char *arg) { @@ -483,7 +492,13 @@ command_boot(char *arg)               return;
        if (filename != NULL) { -               bootit(filename, howto); +               char path[512]; +               if (strchr(filename, '/') == NULL) { +                       snprintf(path, sizeof(path}, "%s/kernel", filename); +                       bootit2(path, sizeof(path), howto); +               } +               snprintf(path, sizeof(path}, "%s", filename); +               bootit2(path, sizeof(path), howto);       } else {               int i;
 
 
 
 On Apr 28, 2025, at 4:20 PM, Paul Goyette via gnats <gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
  The following reply was made to PR kern/59374; it has been noted by GNATS.
  From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> To: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,   netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost Subject: Re: kern/59374: KERNEL_DIR: support passing directories from 'boot' Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:18:08 -0700 (PDT)
  On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Paul Goyette wrote:
 
 On Mon, 28 Apr 2025, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 
 Not easy to do because it can't simply stat the name because we are accessing the disks using bios. The best we can do is probably try name/kernel, name/kernel.gz and then try name.
   That sounds workable.
   Does this work for you?
  Index: boot2.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/boot2.c,v retrieving revision 1.80 diff -u -p -r1.80 boot2.c --- boot2.c	26 Apr 2025 20:17:36 -0000	1.80 +++ boot2.c	28 Apr 2025 20:16:01 -0000 @@ -477,13 +477,34 @@ void  command_boot(char *arg)  {  	char *filename; +	char path[512];  	int howto;
   	if (!parseboot(arg, &filename, &howto))  		return;
   	if (filename != NULL) { -		bootit(filename, howto); +		if ((strrchr(filename, '/') == '\0') { + +			/* filename/kernel */ +			strcpy(path, filename); +			strcat(path, "/kernel"); +			bootit(path, howto); + +			/* filename/kernel.gz */ +			strcat(path, ".gz"); +			bootit(path, howto || AB_VERBOSE); + +			/* filename */ +			bootit(filename, howto); + +			/* filename.gz */ +			strcpy(path, filename); +			strcat(path, ".gz"); +			bootit(path, howto || AB_VERBOSE); + +		} else +			bootit(filename, howto);  	} else {  		int i;
 
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