Date: Sun, 9 Aug 1998 15:46:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: mike@smith.net.au Cc: ben@rosengart.com, dacole@netcom.ca, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New bootstrap config file(s) (Re: booting with verbosity by default? ) Message-ID: <199808092046.PAA03447@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <199808061544.IAA03196@antipodes.cdrom.com> (message from Mike Smith on Thu, 06 Aug 1998 08:44:07 -0700) References: <199808061544.IAA03196@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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>>>> I would like to force my systems to always boot with '-v'.. Is there
>>>> any way to do this without operator intervention?
>>> Take a look at what boot(8) has to say about /boot.config.
>> It says that -v doesn't make the cut for boot.config. The fix is
>> trivial, but I haven't yet rolled a pr.
>> This suggestion hasn't been carefully considered or tested, but if you
>> want to fix it yourself, then in /sys/i386/boot/biosboot/boot.c, move
>> the bit about "loadflags &= (RB_DUAL | RB_SERIAL);" to right around
>> "readfile("boot.config", ...);" about 40 lines up. (The key is that
>> it should be before "getbootdev(boot_config, &loadflags);".) This
>> will effectively allow any boot flags in.
> It will become either "-v" in /boot.config or "set bootverbose" in
> the new bootstrap config, which I haven't named.
> And this is a handy topic to raise it under; the new bootstrap will
> (optionally) need access to quite a few files, and we may not really
> want these cluttering up the root directory. How do people feel about
> a /boot directory these days?
If you're reworking the bootstrap, is it worth me submitting a pr with
this patch? (I'm implementing it locally anyway.)
Happy hacking,
joelh
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