Renamed from hurd.boot; use @exec_prefix@ instead of hardcoded dir.

Added some comments.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/hurd.boot b/hurd.boot
index 6b40e7c1..4b8f5965 100644
--- a/hurd.boot
+++ b/hurd.boot
@@ -1,2 +1,13 @@
+# Boot script file for booting GNU Hurd.  Each line specifies a file to be
+# loaded by the boot loader (the first word), and actions to be done with it.
+
+# First, the bootstrap filesystem.  It needs several ports as arguments,
+# as well as the user flags from the boot loader.
 ufs/ufs ${boot-args} ${host-port} ${device-port} ${exec-task} ${root-device} $(task-create) $(task-resume)
-/gd4/hurdinst/lib/ld.so /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
+
+# Now the exec server; to load the dynamically-linked exec server program,
+# we have the boot loader in fact load and run ld.so, which in turn
+# loads and runs /hurd/exec.  This task is created, and its task port saved
+# in ${exec-task} to be passed to the fs above, but it is left suspended; 
+# the fs will resume the exec task once it is ready.
+@exec_prefix@/lib/ld.so /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)