From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 21:17:14 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C1610656B5; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:17:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947ED8FC13; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 21:17:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 118ED46B9C; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:17:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 42F438A03C; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:17:13 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Brad Davis Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 17:17:12 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100819; KDE/4.4.5; amd64; ; ) References: <201009061550.o86Fo7OA004875@freefall.freebsd.org> <201009071454.27583.jhb@freebsd.org> <20100907204055.GE43322@valentine.liquidneon.com> In-Reply-To: <20100907204055.GE43322@valentine.liquidneon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009071717.12787.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:17:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/108101: /boot/default/loader.conf contains an incorrect comment X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:17:14 -0000 On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:40:55 pm Brad Davis wrote: > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:54:27PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:52:25 pm Brad Davis wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:30:25AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Monday, September 06, 2010 11:50:07 am Brad Davis wrote: > > > > > The following reply was made to PR docs/108101; it has been noted by GNATS. > > > > > > > > > > From: Brad Davis > > > > > To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org > > > > > Cc: > > > > > Subject: Re: docs/108101: /boot/default/loader.conf contains an incorrect > > > > > comment > > > > > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:12:57 -0600 > > > > > > > > > > Confirmed. > > > > > > > > > > Trying to find out if we can fix the loader, rather than remove the > > > > > comment. > > > > > > > > Does it work properly if you use beastie_disable="YES" in loader.conf? > > > > > > It does. > > > > Hmm, presumably it is a regression in beastie.4th then. Unfortunately I do > > not know Forth at all. Something like this might work: > > > > Index: beastie.4th > > =================================================================== > > --- beastie.4th (revision 212292) > > +++ beastie.4th (working copy) > > @@ -241,6 +241,10 @@ > > 10 > > else > > 0 0 2swap >number drop drop drop > > + dup -1 = if > > + exit > > + then > > + drop > > then > > begin > > dup tkey > > > > (I would test this via PXE or some such at first so you can easily back this > > out if it fubar's the boot process.) > > I tested it and it seems to ignore it and start counting down anyways. Hmmm, I'll have to think about this some more. This code is not easy to parse. :( Does it still respect autoboot_delay if you set it to a non-default value? -- John Baldwin