Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:37:53 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some 5.0 oddities Message-ID: <xzpy95izl9a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20030118044448.GA9561@gothmog.gr> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2003 06:44:48 %2B0200") References: <20030118124305.L44035-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <20030118044448.GA9561@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes: > On 2003-01-18 13:12, Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> wrote: > > 4/ You can't interrupt the BTX loader anymore. Used to be able to > > get the ':' prompt before the kernel loaded. > I regularly interrupt my loader at any stage. > Can you elaborate a bit on this one? boot2 no longer accepts keyboard input. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it was some time late last year. I have -Dh in /boot.config, but sometimes I want to use the vga console instead of the serial console. It used to be possible to interrupt boot2 before it loaded /boot/loader, and type '-h' to switch back to the vga console. This doesn't work any more. Now that I think about it, this is actually a pretty serious bug, because if for some reason you happen to install a corrupted or broken loader, you can no longer recover by interrupting boot2 and asking it to load /boot/loader.old instead, nor can you tell it to boot from a backup root partition if the regular one gets corrupted. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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