Re: /boot (was Installation experiences)

[tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

> In the meantime, I'd still like to see a serverboot which understands
> --boot-script=/etc/servers.boot or something similar.

This is hard because the options to serverboot are constructed by the
kernel.  (They don't get passed from GRUB.)

> I've now downloaded Hurd sources, GCC and binutils.  I'll try patching
> serverboot today unless the floppies fail.

You cat patch the binary directly, you know, with emacs, as long as
the string you put in is <= the length of the existing one.

Thomas