config(8) KERNEL setting

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, John Birrell wrote:
> 
> 
>>however kern.post.mk only uses KERNEL_KO, so even though config(8) has
>>set KERNEL for me, that name only gets used for the boot directory.
>>There doesn't seem to be any way of getting KERNEL_KO set from the
>>kernel config file.
> 
> 
> If you change the name of the kernel binary itself, loader won't be able
> to find it.  By renaming the /boot directory it goes into it is Doing the
> Right Thing.

Huh?

kernel="kernel"         # /boot sub-directory containing kernel and modules
bootfile="kernel"       # Kernel name (possibly absolute path)


I note that loader.conf(5) is completely out of date in this regard. 
What can I say? I'm lazy. :-)

> In 5.X, the "kernel" is the core kernel binary and the modules built with
> it.  All of it goes into the same directory.  The /modules directory is
> unused and should be deleted. When you specify a kernel to load in loader,
> you ask for the /boot/foo directory name ("load foo") and loader does the
> rest.


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