From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 10:16:29 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 4447515290 for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 10:16:26 -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 KAA00767; Sat, 15 May 1999 10:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905151714.KAA00767@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Robert Nordier , jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config In-reply-to: Your message of "15 May 1999 13:34:14 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:14:16 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Robert Nordier writes: > > The -P is completely handled by boot2. The effect is to set the > > bootblock -D (dual) and -h (serial) options, if no keyboard is found. > > Unfortunately, the keyboard probe returns false positives on far too > many motherboards for this to be of any use. Not this one; you may be thinking of the PROBE_KEYBOARD option in the old bootblocks though. -- \\ 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