developer/boot.md
@@ -264,7 +264,21 @@ To work on the lua scripts, it is useful to
* Install helloSystem to a virtual hard disk
* In the installed system, edit `/boot/loader.conf` to contain `beastie_disable=NO` and increase the timeout
-Possibly there is also a way to use a lua interpreter on the booted system to work on and debug the lua scripts, but this is currently unknown.
+Possibly there is also a way to use a lua interpreter on the booted system to work on and debug the lua scripts, but this is currently unknown. The following does not seem to work:
+
+```
+% lua54 ./loader.lua
+lua54: ./core.lua:447: attempt to index a nil value (global 'loader')
+stack traceback:
+ ./core.lua:447: in field 'isSystem386'
+ ./core.lua:56: in local 'recordDefaults'
+ ./core.lua:525: in main chunk
+ [C]: in function 'require'
+ ./cli.lua:31: in main chunk
+ [C]: in function 'require'
+ ./loader.lua:36: in main chunk
+ [C]: in ?
+```
The `/boot` directory also contains files referring to 4th, those are all unused, misleading, and can be removed. Besides files with `4th` in their name this also includes files ending in `.rc`.