Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 12:57:24 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader.conf from loader prompt Message-ID: <1483041444.16152.57.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4e00321e-75bd-bec2-5d03-44aa0fb62298@freebsd.org> References: <20161229114324.GI37118@zxy.spb.ru> <1483022457.3851552.832172593.724798DE@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20161229145304.GK37118@zxy.spb.ru> <4e00321e-75bd-bec2-5d03-44aa0fb62298@freebsd.org>
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On Thu, 2016-12-29 at 14:22 -0500, Allan Jude wrote: > On 2016-12-29 09:53, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 08:40:57AM -0600, Mark Felder wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 29, 2016, at 05:43, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > > > > > > I am need set/unset some values (from loader.conf) from loader > > > > prompt. > > > > Or add content of some file to loader.conf from loader prompt. > > > > Or interactivly enable/disable some lines from loader.conf > > > > > > > > Is this posible? > > > > > > > Yes. Check the loader(8) man page or the "help" command at the > > > loader > > > prompt. > > Already did, don't help. > > > > For example, what I need enter in loader prompt for next equalent: > > == > > mfsroot_load="YES" > > mfsroot_type="md_image" > > mfsroot_name="/boot/md.img" > > == > > > > set mfsroot_load="YES" > > set mfsroot_type="md_image" > > set mfsroot_name="/boot/md.img" > > boot > > > > don't work. > > > > `load -t md_image /boot/md.img` can't be before kernel load. > > > > What I am missing? > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freeb > > sd.org" > > > To run loader commands from a file: > include /path/to/file > > To see what variables are already set: > show > > Read an additional/alternate loader.conf file: > read-conf /path/to/file > > I can't see any evidence that read-conf does anything. If I name a nonexistant file it doesn't complain. If I name an existing file that does load_uftdi=YES, then doing a show afterwards doesn't show that variable being set, and the module doesn't get loaded. Forth is so... 1973. I wonder what ever happened to the project to use lua as the loader command language? -- Ian
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