From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Sep 30 12:20:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00718 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:20:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00709 for ; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id MAA13854; Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 12:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199809301920.MAA13854@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Robert Nordier Subject: Re: i386/8105: boot.help behavior is broken Reply-To: Robert Nordier Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR i386/8105; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Robert Nordier To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/8105: boot.help behavior is broken Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 21:17:33 +0200 (SAT) Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >Description: > > The boot.help text is mistakenly printed multiple times > rather than just once or in response to a specific command. > This causes its text to scroll away other more useful output, > such as the file listing (`?') the user may have just requested, > and there's no way to turn it off. [...] > >Fix: > > Convince Bruce to make the code a one-shot, hoping that a PR > will succeed where previous suggestions have failed. :) A very much better fix is to install btxboot, which doesn't print the help file at all. OK, just kidding. :-) -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message