From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 12 6:49:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82CDE14CBA for ; Wed, 12 May 1999 06:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id WAA18732; Wed, 12 May 1999 22:47:59 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <373984A8.B97D503D@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:39:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Greco Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader question References: <199905120532.AAA91673@aurora.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Greco wrote: > > I've got a /boot/loader.rc that looks like > > set autoboot_delay=15 > set console=comconsole > set prompt="boot: aurora >" > > and a serial console. This goes into another machine. My (simple) > question, why do the first two "set" commands work and the third does > not? If I hit space to abort the autoboot, the prompt does not set, > which would be sort of nice because once in a while I get machines a > bit confused ("now, let's see, which one is on which port...") Because you use an older version of loader. :-) Read the man page. After processing loader.rc, loader(8) sets the prompt. The current version of loader doesn't have this idiosyncrasy. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Proof of Trotsky's farsightedness is that _none_ of his predictions have come true yet." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message