Subject: Re: Passing boot flags (again)...
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/25/2003 19:29:43
In article <Pine.NEB.4.51.0303251047181.4151@lothlorien.starwolf.com>,
Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> wrote:
>Hey, folks,
>
>I'm just thinking about ways to pass boot flags/strings up to the
>bootloader, but no way reliable is coming to mind.  I'd settle for
>the ability of reboot(2) to skrog something that the bootblocks might
>know how to retrieve, as hackish as it sounds.
>
>It would just be really nice for ports that don't have FW support
>for keeping boot flags/strings sitting around to be able to run
>
>netbsd# reboot -- 'wd0g:netbsd -sa'

We should really support /boot.conf or /etc/boot.conf or something for
the second level boot blocks.

christos