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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

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