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| author | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 2001-08-21 04:19:34 +0000 |
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| committer | Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> | 2001-08-21 04:19:34 +0000 |
| commit | 7ad12bf7e68d675b99cd68e3173a8f1e2d3c61c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 021982d4e82f3ebfc84c9874a93aec1fa1e58d6d /NEWS | |
| parent | 9a23f3c7f25a686d931f760b2b39fe477992e0e6 (diff) | |
2001-08-20 Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Support "boot script" functionality in multiboot module strings.
* kern/bootstrap.c: Rewrite merged from oskit-branch.
* kern/boot_script.c, kern/boot_script.h: New files,
copied from boot/ directory in Hurd sources.
* Makefile.in (kern-cfiles): Add boot_script.c here.
(kern-files): Add boot_script.h here.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ -*- Text -*- + +The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of multiboot +module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's `serverboot' program. +That is, instead of telling GRUB "module /boot/serverboot", you can give +GRUB a series of command like "module /hurd/ext2fs ${...}" where the +syntax after "module" is the same as in boot scripts for Hurd's `serverboot'. + The kernel message device `kmsg' is now enabled by default. --disable-kmsg turns it off. @@ -47,4 +54,3 @@ Bug in --enable-ncr53c7xx has been fixed. Many thanks go to Marcus G. Daniels (marcus@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu) for his very helpful testing of the 1.0 release and for his many improvements to the cross-compilation support. - |