Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:52:33 +0100 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@incunabulum.net> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting bootverbose (or boothowto) from the kernel config file ? Message-ID: <48F1ACC1.3020600@incunabulum.net> In-Reply-To: <20081010151456.GA27576@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <20081010151456.GA27576@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Also, what is exactly the relation between the two variables > 'boothowto' (apparently set through the loader and containing > various flags) and 'bootverbose' (which is a sysctl) ? > Different parts of the kernel use one or the other to control > verbose output, and i am not sure if, e.g. setting RB_VERBOSE > in 'boothowto' also sets bootverbose... > See the FSG3 patch I just posted to embedded@ yesterday. I pulled some of that from ia64. Both amd64 and i386 implement it in init_i386() -- the early enviroment stuff happens during the MD startup and isn't implemented the same in all architectures.
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