Re: How to disable the boot0 menu?

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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