Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:09:44 -0700 From: Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot2 problem Message-ID: <19991015030944.A93974@dub.net> In-Reply-To: <19991015114556.A7776@scorpion.crimea.ua> References: <19991014171747.A11382@scorpion.crimea.ua> <199910150757.AAA00979@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991015114556.A7776@scorpion.crimea.ua>
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On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:45:56AM +0400, Alexey Zelkin wrote: > 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 :-) ). The boot loader was completly rewritten for the 3.x series. > > > 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 ? You don't have to explicitly specify the kernel name. If the default kernel has already been loaded you just have to tell it what to do. 'boot -v' It's pretty consistant with other OS's boot prompt. -Bill -- -=| --- B i l l S w i n g l e --- http://www.dub.net/ -=| unfurl@dub.net - unfurl@freebsd.org - bill@cdrom.com -=| Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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