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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:45:56 +0400
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: boot2 problem
Message-ID:  <19991015114556.A7776@scorpion.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <199910150757.AAA00979@dingo.cdrom.com>
References:  <19991014171747.A11382@scorpion.crimea.ua> <199910150757.AAA00979@dingo.cdrom.com>

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hi,

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:57:26AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:

> That's correct.  '-v' at the boot: prompt does nothing.

But '/kernel' is default kernel name, so "-v" will be option to default
kernel name (at least FreeBSD 1.1.5.1/2.* does that :-) ).
 
> > Q: What I do then ?
> > A: On boot prompt type "kernel -v"
> > 
> > Q: So ?
> > A: All works fine (system is booting in verbose mode)
> 
> '-v' is an argument to the kernel.  Specify it as such.  8)
If we have default kernel name then why I can't pass parameters there 
and have to excplicitly type kernel name ?

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