> > Wrong again. boot0 is in the MBR, boot1 and boot2 are the bootstrap; > > all by Robert. The loader, OTOH, uses Robert's BTX code, Ficl, and a > > lot of code derived by me from the NetBSD standalone loader. > > Boot2 is, as you say, correctly identified as the "bootstrap", however you > cannot deny that boot2 is a kernel loader as it can load a pure executable > (a.out kernel or /boot/loader) or an ELF kernel.
It's the bootstrap. Yes, it can load kernels, but it is not referred to as the "kernel loader" (that's what the loader is). > > > The BTX loader does have a "prompt" by default and if you interrupt the > > > countdown. The prompt is, of course, Forth :) > > > > The "BTX loader" doesn't have a prompt at all. The kernel loader has a > > prompt, and the prompt is not written in Forth (yet). > > By "BTX loader" I refer to the BTX kernel and system which can bootstrap > a kernel and load modules. There's already a perfectly good piece of code called the "BTX Loader" (btxldr); it's not appropriate to misapply this name to the loader proper. > The prompt isn't OF Forth, I stated that the prompt TAKES Forth; perhaps I > could have said that better. You "meant" that the prompt takes Forth, perhaps. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
