Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:47:43 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r271762 - in head/sys/boot: amd64/boot1.efi efi/include efi/libefi Message-ID: <CAPyFy2CHv2BZQga-awvwDtrk4ZhC1Dme8ADQUf%2BN2dWJ2MDyiw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FF8759D1-B9E7-4ACD-B5D0-F5B2E7B653D6@lists.zabbadoz.net> References: <201409181359.s8IDxaOW050452@svn.freebsd.org> <FF8759D1-B9E7-4ACD-B5D0-F5B2E7B653D6@lists.zabbadoz.net>
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On 18 September 2014 10:20, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: > > Thanks a lot; that massively helps debugging (as you can at least see wh= at=E2=80=99s going on). Eventually we might want to make that dependent o= n environment variables maybe? > > For example on the Mac I have been using this for a while to see kernel b= oot messages: > > % sudo nvram boot-args > boot-args -v > > But I am not entirely confident with variable naming or sharing on dual-b= oot machines yet. It seems the new world order has quite a bit to discover= (research) still ;-) Yes, once we add nvram environment variable support we will want to provide a choice of switching to text mode in the loader or remaining in graphics mode and hiding the boot process. You are correct that there's a lot to sort out for dual-boot cases.
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