How to disable the boot0 menu?

Bill Hacker wbh at conducive.org
Wed Sep 27 01:32:35 PDT 2006


Matthew Dillon wrote:

    The boot0 menu is run from "/boot/loader.rc".  You can pretty much
    do whatever you want there... in the forth language :-)
Forth is a lot more than just a 'language'.  It is an inherently virtual-memory, 
dual-stack, virtual machine and the operating system to run it.

An environment, IOW.

One in which to *define* languages...

FICL and predecessors came about 'coz it doesn't need much in the way of 
resources to do all these things.

12K to 20K for a Wysiwig WP, 32-64K for a full-blown ISAM & BOM system.

Given decent on-die cache, Forth needs little else to do quite a bit of useful 
stuff.

    It is also possible to bypass the forth loader entirely by
    modifying /boot.config (the boot2 config file).  By default boot2
    runs /boot/loader but you can give it a different command to run
    in /boot.config.  I'm not entirely sure of the format, it might just
    be the path to the program to load and options, e.g. '/kernel', or it
    might not.  If you screw up you might have to boot from the live CD
    to get back in and fix it.
						-Matt
Or another partition, attached drive, CF or USB that can mount and edit the one 
you need to change.  Easily fixed, and nothing to be overly fearful of.

Bill





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