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Date:      Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:37:46 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@offmyserver.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: docs/84094: [PATCH] Serial Communication Doc Error
Message-ID:  <200507251737.47607.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200507252057.j6PKvO3I083627@raqdevil.offmyserver.com>
References:  <200507252057.j6PKvO3I083627@raqdevil.offmyserver.com>

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On Monday 25 July 2005 04:57 pm, Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> >Description:
>
> 	The serial communications chapter of the handbook implies that setting up
> boot messages to be output on the serial console can be quickly achieved by
> inserting
>
> 	set console="comconsole"
>
> 	into /boot/loader.conf
>
> 	This is incorrect and will trigger a syntax error. Instead, the same line
> should be inserted into /boot/loader.rc _or_ the ``set'' part should be
> removed to give the equivilant for loader.conf(5)
>
> 	The attached patches contain a choice of corrections; I suppose it is up
> to the doc team to decide which is more applicable. I would personally
> prefer the loader.conf(5) one (the second patch) since changing loader.rc
> generally seems to me to be a bad idea.

Agreed.  This sort of thing belongs in loader.conf.

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