From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 9 0:48:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netcore.fi (netcore.fi [193.94.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F4737B666 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 00:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pekkas@netcore.fi) Received: from localhost (pekkas@localhost) by netcore.fi (8.10.2/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e597mTr14780 for ; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:48:29 +0300 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 10:48:28 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka Savola Reply-To: Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: If boot.config is used, the default boot fails. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I'm trying to set up serial console on 3.4-STABLE (updated from 2.2.x) using the handbook's serial console section (14.6). However, if I add anything (-P -D, for example, or 0:wd(0,a)/kernel -P -D) in /boot.config as suggested, FreeBSD won't boot without user input: ---- >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a) boot: No >> FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:wd(0,a) [etc..] ---- What am I missing here? Perhaps this should be clarified in the handbook? If I remove and touch /boot.config, the boot goes automatically just fine. It seems to use the boot loader though, not boot the kernel directly? A dredge from 2.2.x times? How could the default be changed? If I don't/do use boot loader, what features would I miss, any pointers on that? BTW, As the handbook mentions, currently it isn't possible to pass '-P' argument to boot loader. Is there any development in progress to make it so? Thanks, -- Pekka Savola "Tell me of difficulties surmounted, Pekka.Savola@netcore.fi not those you stumble over and fall" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message