Re: Proposal to enhance boot path selections

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost> writes:

>> Yup, I think you're missing the fact that all of this relates to the
>> ratther new-ish KERNEL_DIR option, support for which was only recently
>> completed (by myself).  KERNEL_DIR is described briefly in options(4),
>> and it is noted in both CHANGES and UPDATING.
>
> Correction, KERNEL_DIR is described in mk.conf(5).  It is a build.sh
> option.

Is how one interacts with it described in boot(8)?  It seems like it
should be.  (The build where I went to read that man page is from May
5.)

Beyond that, if one uses that by specifying a directory, which contains
a kernel and modules, then I don't see why slashes should have anything
to do with it.   It would simply be

  if filename(which is really pathname?) refers to a directory
  AND
  the KERNEL_DIR option is enabled in the boot loader(?)

  then

  bootcode tries to find a kernel and modules in that directory, and if
  so, boots them, and if not prints an error

so I don't understand the discussiion about if/then rules relating to slashes.