From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 3 22:48:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail6.speakeasy.net (mail6.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.206]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB9E937B41C for ; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:47:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 28582 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2002 06:47:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 4 Jan 2002 06:47:44 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <003c01c194c0$6feb5550$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 22:47:29 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthew Emmerton Subject: Re: boot1 Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Jan-02 Matthew Emmerton wrote: >> On 03-Jan-02 David E. Cross wrote: >> > I'd like to create a /boot.config switch that will have boot1 _not_ read > from >> > the console; this is for a secure setup. Would others be interested in > these >> > patches when I finish them? >> >> Yes. I've seen other places use this, and I would commit it. :) > > How would this affect systems where you *have* to hit enter at the first > "boot:" prompt in order to kick off a boot sequence? I've got two identical > machines (same hardware, cloned hard drives), and one of them simply won't > boot unless you hit enter. Turning off console imput would render this > system useless after a reboot :) > > I think there's a PR open about this somewhere. Errr, why do you have to hit enter? If this patch does what I think it does, you won't even get a boot: prompt at all, it will just jump straight into the loader (or kernel). Besides, it wouldn't be on by default. You would have to explicitly turn it on via a flag in /boot.config. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message