In message <200305111947.h4BJlChe011930@guild.plethora.net>, Peter Seebach writ
es:
>In message <20030511204131.A4747@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>, David Laight writes:
>>Somewhere in my plan is a desire to add code to /boot (for i386) that
>>will read commands from a file before/instead of (etc) taking them from
>>the user. Also in the list is code to let /boot read a bootstrap from
>>a different disk.
>
>I would love to see this.  BSD/OS's "/etc/boot.default" is a true wonder.
>

Let me second that -- it saved my (expletive deleted) on Thinkpads, 
where I had to use some strange incantation at boot time to deal with 
usable memory size as opposed to apparent.  (Due to different boot 
schemes, NetBSD doesn't have that particular problem.)

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)