On Thu, 14 Mar 96 21:55:07 WET 
 Zdenek Salvet <salvet@horn.ics.muni.cz> wrote:

> BSDI can read config and boot info from file, I like it very much:
> 
>     If the file /etc/boot.default exists, the /boot program reads this as a
>      series of commands to be executed, one command per line, just as if they
>      were typed from the keyboard.  This can be used to boot the kernel from 
a
>      different device than the BIOS uses to boot, or to change various parame
-
>      ters listed in the next section.
> 
>      The commonly-used boot commands are the following:
> 

I like this too.

> > Look closely at the LILO source and how it passes things on to the
> > kernel. It might be worth considering combining the some of the
> > features of os-bs into a boot loader like LILO. I can't think of any
> > overriding reasons not to add that functionality into the BSD boot
> > loader (apart from size, complexity and the awkwardness of finding and
> > booting a different OS once you're in protected mode)
> 
> I think it's  better *not* to merge boot partition chooser and OS loader 
> into one LILO lookalike. I don't need any code to load Linux,SCO,DOS,....
> in my NetBSD machine.
> 
Myself also, I don't think that this should ever be part of the tree, 
there are utils out there that do this and they should not be part of 
NetBSD.

Neil.
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Neil J. McRae                                           Easynet Group plc
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