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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option
To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 1995 19:30:06 +0100 (MET)
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.
> 
> 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).
> 
> 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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