Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 23:21:07 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 206300] /boot/defaults/loader.conf nextboot_enable should have a doc comment Message-ID: <bug-206300-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206300 Bug ID: 206300 Summary: /boot/defaults/loader.conf nextboot_enable should have a doc comment Product: Base System Version: 10.2-STABLE Hardware: i386 OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: conf Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: joelh@piquan.org CC: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org CC: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org In /boot/defaults/loader.conf, there is an option nextboot_enable="NO". From this name, I thought that this would need to be enabled for the nextboot(8) command to work. In actuality, it needs to be "NO" under normal circumstances, and is changed to "YES" by nextboot(8). Turning it on when nextboot.conf isn't written used to be harmless, but after some recent loader.4th changes, it now causes the bootloader to get a stack underflow and fail. It would be useful to add a comment to /boot/defaults/loader.conf describing the variable's correct use. For instance: # Temporarily set to "YES" by nextboot(8) in nextboot_conf to request special processing -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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