Re: Proposal to enhance boot path selections

Paul Goyette <[email protected]> writes:

> With the recent changes, specifying /onetbsd will only look for a
> kernel in /onetbsd and /onetbsd.gz (both being regular files);  it
> will not look in /onetbsd/kernel or /onetbsd/kernel.gz as might be
> expected.
>
> If one is accustomed to booting with the leading slash it could be
> disconcerting (or worse) to not having ingrained muscle-memory boot
> the old kernel as expected.

My $0.02 is that I had no idea that 'boot foo' would try to load
foo/kernel, and that I find this unintuitive and not really helpful.

Reading boot(8) on current amd64, I see that boot is specified to take
"filename" and there is no mention of directories.  The man page kind of
implies that filename must be the name of a file in the root directory.
There's no suggestion that it makes sense to have leading slash.
There's no suggestion that one can give a pathname rather than a
filename.

Thus I suspect I am missing something.