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Date:      Sun, 5 Nov 1995 21:31:26 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de, grog@lemis.de
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: machine reboot & kernel maxusers option
Message-ID:  <199511051031.VAA32280@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> > 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)

>I'll go along with that.  "Not found" also scares off people who don't
>realize that it's a normal state of affairs.

It's only normal (and not good) for GENERIC and other bloated kernels.

Bruce



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