From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 4 9:36:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts8.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B34A237B419; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 09:36:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([199.243.148.182]) by tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.16 201-229-121-116-20010115) with ESMTP id <20020104173649.DMTV16860.tomts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca>; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:36:49 -0500 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id g04HQjX48577; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:26:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <000601c19546$6196b2c0$d28a1a09@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "John Baldwin" Cc: References: Subject: Re: boot1 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 11:42:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 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. As Mike Silbersack (sp?) pointed out, it's a rogue problem that people run into every now and then. I think it's BIOS/motherboard related. In any case, if the patch bypasses the prompt entirely, then there's no problem in my case (and would actually make things better for me.) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message