Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 09:35:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config Message-ID: <199905151635.JAA00553@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 18:37:40 PDT." <199905150137.SAA03336@vashon.polstra.com>
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> In article <199905142221.PAA02318@dingo.cdrom.com>, > Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> wrote: > > > What's the new /boot/loader.rc equivalent of -P in /boot.config? > > > > -P in /boot.config (This is the best place to do it) > > I'm curious about how it fits together. Does the bootblock code pass > the -P to /boot/loader, which then does the right thing with it? -P causes boot2 to probe for a keyboard (by checking the BIOS keyboard type flag), it'll then pass the result of this probe on to the loader. The advantage with doing it this way is that it gets the system onto the right console as early as possible, giving you maximum stuffup survivability. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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