Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:30:06 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option Message-ID: <199511261830.TAA01254@prospero> In-Reply-To: <199511260114.TAA28159@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Nov 25, 95 07:14:40 pm
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> J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
> >I really don't like the two dozen ``foo: not found at address ...''
> >messages for the installation kernel.
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> I like it. A lot. I hate systems that don't tell me what the hell they're
> doing on boot-up (see also, Windows NT, SCO, Unixware).
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> How about at least an "options BOOTVERBOSE" for us belt-and-suspenders types?
>
yes - why not that way:
* options BOOTVERBOSE - does the same like:
if (boothowto & RB_VERBOSE)
bootverbose++;
in /sys/i386/i386/machdep.c
* boot -v too
* and if verbose boot is set in either way's all is printed and else only successfull probes ?
t
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