From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 9:37:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles550.castles.com [208.214.165.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2704D15027 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 09:37:22 -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 JAA00553; Sat, 15 May 1999 09:35:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905151635.JAA00553@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: John Polstra Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 14 May 1999 18:37:40 PDT." <199905150137.SAA03336@vashon.polstra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 09:35:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In article <199905142221.PAA02318@dingo.cdrom.com>, > Mike Smith 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