Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:42:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot2 problem Message-ID: <199910151542.IAA03279@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:45:56 %2B0400." <19991015114556.A7776@scorpion.crimea.ua>
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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 :-) ). However, FreeBSD 3.x and 4.x do not. /boot/loader is the default object loaded by boot2. > > > 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 can. Don't interrupt boot2, wait for the loader, and use 'boot -v'. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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