From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 02:13:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA29851 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:13:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com ([208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA29837 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:12:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-39.camalott.com [208.229.74.39]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA06960; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 04:12:33 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA13740; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:54:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:54:33 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808060754.CAA13740@detlev.UUCP> To: ben@rosengart.com CC: dacole@netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Snob Art Genre on Tue, 4 Aug 1998 13:41:05 -0400 (EDT)) Subject: Re: booting with verbosity by default? From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I would like to force my systems to always boot with '-v'.. Is there >> any way to do this without operator intervention? > Take a look at what boot(8) has to say about /boot.config. It says that -v doesn't make the cut for boot.config. The fix is trivial, but I haven't yet rolled a pr. This suggestion hasn't been carefully considered or tested, but if you want to fix it yourself, then in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c, move the bit about "loadflags &= (RB_DUAL | RB_SERIAL);" to right around "readfile("boot.config", ...);" about 40 lines up. (The key is that it should be before "getbootdev(boot_config, &loadflags);".) This will effectively allow any boot flags in. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message