Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 18:18:56 -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: <199808062318.SAA01218@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. > It will become either "-v" in /boot.config or "set bootverbose" in > the new bootstrap config, which I haven't named. Sorry, hadn't heard about it. Haven't been keeping up too closely these last few weeks. > 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? Aye. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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