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+# 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)