Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 08:44:07 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: ben@rosengart.com, dacole@netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New bootstrap config file(s) (Re: booting with verbosity by default? ) Message-ID: <199808061544.IAA03196@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Aug 1998 02:54:33 CDT." <199808060754.CAA13740@detlev.UUCP>
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> >> 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.
It will become either "-v" in /boot.config or "set bootverbose" in
the new bootstrap config, which I haven't named.
And this is a handy topic to raise it under; the new bootstrap will
(optionally) need access to quite a few files, and we may not really
want these cluttering up the root directory. How do people feel about
a /boot directory these days?
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