From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 21:34: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FBCB156E7; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA11969; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:34:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 00:34:01 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Warner Losh , Peter Wemm , Cameron Grant , multimedia@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: it's time... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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