Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:04:35 -0600 From: Craig Boston <craig@feniz.gank.org> To: Ben Kelly <bkelly@vadev.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: loader.conf setting ignored Message-ID: <20051111020435.GB16592@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <4373B454.8080502@vadev.org> References: <200511071149.03181.bkelly@vadev.org> <200511072105.36728.sarxan@azerin.com> <200511071310.51482.bkelly@vadev.org> <200511072319.18538.sarxan@azerin.com> <4373B454.8080502@vadev.org>
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On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 03:57:56PM -0500, Ben Kelly wrote: > So it turns out you can set kern.geom.debugflags from loader.conf. The > gvinum mirror problem I was trying to debug was causing the problem. > Edits to loader.conf were only being written to the second disk, but the > loader was reading the first disk during boot. After manually copying > /boot over it worked fine. Just thought I would mention that for the > archives. Just a tip that may help in circumstances like this. Anything that can be set from loader.conf (or device.hints for that matter) can also be set from the loader prompt: set kern.geom.debugflags=XXX ...of course in your case it looked like the values _were_ being set, but it can be handy when loader.conf is difficult or impossible to edit. Craig
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