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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 1999 13:20:17 +0400
From:      Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net>
To:        Bill Swingle <unfurl@dub.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: boot2 problem
Message-ID:  <19991015132017.A19180@scorpion.crimea.ua>
In-Reply-To: <19991015030944.A93974@dub.net>
References:  <19991014171747.A11382@scorpion.crimea.ua> <199910150757.AAA00979@dingo.cdrom.com> <19991015114556.A7776@scorpion.crimea.ua> <19991015030944.A93974@dub.net>

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hi,

On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 03:09:44AM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:

> > > > 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'

You're talking about loader(8) boot stage and I about boot2 stage (before
loader(8) execution)

> It's pretty consistant with other OS's boot prompt. 
Ok, I see that I'll not get answer to my question except "do it otherwise".

Sorry.

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