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Subject: Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option
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> As Amancio Hasty Jr. wrote:
> 
> > > > Should device drivers during boot time print messages of devices
> >      not foun d ?
> 
> >  > Well, it is useful to see if one of your devices is not
> >  found... and you're > not supposed to reboot that often (unless you
> >  run -CURRENT that is).
> 
> > I don't buy that since at boot time all drivers print a message to the 
> > effect that the device was found and configuration information.
> 
> I've been voting for hiding the ``not found'' messages behind the
> "bootverbose" (boot -v) case long ago, but nobody seems to agree. :)
>
 
i agree with you - i think this should be the sense of a "-v" flag - normally
you should'ne see what's missing (if it is something impotant you'll see it if
something is'nt working :-) - but you shoud have a chance to look more careful
at all the device probes (using boot -v)

t
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