From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 6 16:20:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:20:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01381 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 16:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-129.camalott.com [208.229.74.129]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19917; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:20:19 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA01218; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:18:56 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:18:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199808062318.SAA01218@detlev.UUCP> To: mike@smith.net.au CC: ben@rosengart.com, dacole@netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199808061544.IAA03196@antipodes.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Thu, 06 Aug 1998 08:44:07 -0700) Subject: Re: New bootstrap config file(s) (Re: booting with verbosity by default? ) From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <199808061544.IAA03196@antipodes.cdrom.com> 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. > It will become either "-v" in /boot.config or "set bootverbose" in > the new bootstrap config, which I haven't named. Sorry, hadn't heard about it. Haven't been keeping up too closely these last few weeks. > 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? Aye. 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