I wood like to to get bootable cd with auto selectable amd64/i386 boot kernel, but did not find any solution in current boot facilities. For instance, if i have a bootable cd with two kernels located /boot/kernel.amd64 and /boot/kernel.i386 accordingly it looks pretty logical to have loader.conf line like /kernel=kernel.${hw.machine} and it let boots up amd64 kernel if long mode supported. Fix: I found that the boot facilities has everything to setup the hw.machine kernel environment variable, but does't do that. Is it right to setup hw.machine kernel variable with a patch attached? Patch attached with submission follows: How-To-Repeat: append loader.conf with line kernel=kernel.${hw.machine} andd see nothing will happend event you have kernels in a assumed path.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-bugs->brian This might be a good way to solve some problems I'll be having in the near future!
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