Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:39:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader question Message-ID: <373984A8.B97D503D@newsguy.com> References: <199905120532.AAA91673@aurora.sol.net>
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Joe Greco wrote:
>
> I've got a /boot/loader.rc that looks like
>
> set autoboot_delay=15
> set console=comconsole
> set prompt="boot: aurora >"
>
> and a serial console. This goes into another machine. My (simple)
> question, why do the first two "set" commands work and the third does
> not? If I hit space to abort the autoboot, the prompt does not set,
> which would be sort of nice because once in a while I get machines a
> bit confused ("now, let's see, which one is on which port...")
Because you use an older version of loader. :-) Read the man page.
After processing loader.rc, loader(8) sets the prompt.
The current version of loader doesn't have this idiosyncrasy.
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Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS)
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