From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 15 4:34:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DFC914E8D for ; Sat, 15 May 1999 04:34:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id NAA48748; Sat, 15 May 1999 13:34:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: Robert Nordier Cc: jdp@polstra.com (John Polstra), mike@smith.net.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: equivalent to "-P" in boot.config References: <199905150816.KAA22268@ceia.nordier.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 May 1999 13:34:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: Robert Nordier's message of "Sat, 15 May 1999 10:16:51 +0200 (SAST)" Message-ID: Lines: 10 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Nordier writes: > The -P is completely handled by boot2. The effect is to set the > bootblock -D (dual) and -h (serial) options, if no keyboard is found. Unfortunately, the keyboard probe returns false positives on far too many motherboards for this to be of any use. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message