From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 18 4:37:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94BE837B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 04:37:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC2843F13 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 04:37:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 21B265374; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:37:53 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Andy Farkas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some 5.0 oddities References: <20030118124305.L44035-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <20030118044448.GA9561@gothmog.gr> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:37:53 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20030118044448.GA9561@gothmog.gr> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:44:48 +0200") Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.2 (i386--freebsd) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas writes: > On 2003-01-18 13:12, Andy Farkas wrote: > > 4/ You can't interrupt the BTX loader anymore. Used to be able to > > get the ':' prompt before the kernel loaded. > I regularly interrupt my loader at any stage. > Can you elaborate a bit on this one? boot2 no longer accepts keyboard input. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it was some time late last year. I have -Dh in /boot.config, but sometimes I want to use the vga console instead of the serial console. It used to be possible to interrupt boot2 before it loaded /boot/loader, and type '-h' to switch back to the vga console. This doesn't work any more. Now that I think about it, this is actually a pretty serious bug, because if for some reason you happen to install a corrupted or broken loader, you can no longer recover by interrupting boot2 and asking it to load /boot/loader.old instead, nor can you tell it to boot from a backup root partition if the regular one gets corrupted. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message