From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 5 02:03:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12554 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 02:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.15.68.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12543 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 02:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA13552; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:02:31 +1000 Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 19:02:31 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199808050902.TAA13552@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: dacole@netcom.ca, Studded@dal.net Subject: Re: booting with verbosity by default? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> I would like to force my systems to always boot with '-v'.. Is there >> any way to do this without operator intervention? > >echo -v > /boot.config You also have to fix the boot code to not gratuitously ignore -v. >'man boot' for more info. "You may put a BIOS drive number, a controller type, a unit number, a par- tition, a kernel file name and the -b, -D, -h or -P options in /boot.config to set defaults..." No mention of -v. -b and -P in also cleared early, but -b sort of works because turning it off doesn't work, and -P works because it is processed even earlier. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message