From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 15 8:51:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles553.castles.com [208.214.165.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8F41532F for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA03279; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910151542.IAA03279@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Alexey Zelkin Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: boot2 problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Oct 1999 11:45:56 +0400." <19991015114556.A7776@scorpion.crimea.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 08:42:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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