From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 15 14:39:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hawaii.conterra.com (hawaii.conterra.com [209.12.164.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB83E14CC2 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:39:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myself@conterra.com) Received: from dmaddox.conterra.com (myself@dmaddox.conterra.com [209.12.169.48]) by hawaii.conterra.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA11021; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:39:09 -0500 (EST) Received: (from myself@localhost) by dmaddox.conterra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA01031; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:39:13 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from myself) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:39:13 -0500 From: "Donald J . Maddox" To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: dmaddox@conterra.com, Donn Miller , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot -c not saving changes Message-ID: <19990315173913.B971@dmaddox.conterra.com> Reply-To: dmaddox@conterra.com References: <19990314160034.A5912@dmaddox.conterra.com> <36ECDDF8.1CCF419@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <36ECDDF8.1CCF419@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:16:24PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 07:16:24PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > "Donald J . Maddox" wrote: > > > > If you are *really* -current, /boot/loader.rc should probably > > just contain something like: > > > > include /boot/loader.4th > > start > > > > Then, you should copy /boot/defaults/loader.conf to /boot/loader.conf > > and edit it to match what you want to happen at boot. > > Copying is dangerous. If you do not remove the loader_conf_files > line, it will enter an infinite recursion. Interestingly enough, I copied /boot/defaults/loader.conf to /boot/loader.conf, edited it, and rebooted (not removing the loader_conf_files line) and it boots just fine, with no recursion. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message