Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Cameron Grant <gandalf@vilnya.demon.co.uk>, multimedia@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908120032130.4840-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908112355580.81521-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so > great about not seeing the system boot up? The same reason that when you type 'cp foo /tmp/' it doesn't say '1 file copied, 3425 bytes.' or other nonesense. If nothings wrong then print nothing. Granted, you and I would have our 'boot_verbose' envar set to '1' or '2' or something that gave us the correct amount of feedback we've grown acustom to. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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