[CFT] Kernel-Selection Enhancemnt to Boot Menu

[Kurt Lidl]

> On Nov 2, 2013, at 1:45 AM, Sam Fourman Jr. wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Teske, Devin <Devin.Teske at fisglobal.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's a chance to test out the kernel selection menu enhancements
>> to the boot loader menu before they go into HEAD.
>>
>> Discussion welcome, feedback desired.
>>
>> No recompile needed, just drop the new forth files onto a HEAD or
>> stable/9 box and reboot.
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Devin
>>
>> where are the forth files in question?
>>
>
> D'Oh!
>
> Here they are:
>
> http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/forth_zfs/
>
> Supplied as patches to either stable/9 or head.
> --
> Devin

Hmmm.  I saw no appreciable changes to behavior when I patched all
the files in /boot with these versions.  This was on a sparc64 host
running 10-BETA3 (compile this morning).

Notably, the kernel and modules still loaded before presenting me
with the option to tell it which kernel to load:

Executing last command: boot /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 8/disk at 0,0:a
Boot device: /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 8/disk at 0,0:a  File and args:

 >> FreeBSD/sparc64 ZFS boot block
    Boot path:   /pci at 1f,0/pci at 1/scsi at 8/disk at 0,0:a
Consoles: Open Firmware console
\
FreeBSD/sparc64 ZFS enabled bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
(root at snap.freebsd.org, Sun Oct 27 07:20:42 UTC 2013)
bootpath="zfs:sys/ROOT/default:"
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel data=0x8d54c0+0x66180 syms=[0x8+0x954f0+0x8+0x8d7ef]
/boot/kernel/zfs.ko text=0x223328 data=0xa4e0+0x17fc0 
syms=[0x8+0x197b8+0x8+0x143f8]
loading required module 'opensolaris'
/boot/kernel/opensolaris.ko text=0x3130 data=0x2c8+0x2030 
syms=[0x8+0xd98+0x8+0x929]
/boot/kernel/geom_mirror.ko text=0x38430 data=0x5b0+0x20 
syms=[0x8+0x16b0+0x8+0x119e]

Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 9 seconds...


-Kurt