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Authored by imp on Oct 3 2016, 10:01 PM.
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/boot/boot.conf existed for the 3.0 release (r38764). It was replaced by /boot/loader.rc for 3.1 (r42682). In May 2000, this was documented as deprecated (r61942) (between FreeBSD 4.0 and 4.1). Remove it.

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missed a second mention.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 3 2016, 10:04 PM
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Wow! Two positive reviews before I could create the branch in github :)

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Remember to bump .Dd on loader.8.

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