Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 02:20:06 -0700 From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot -P AND autoboot possible? Message-ID: <37749B46.E2CB5F82@gorean.org> References: <49690.930374121@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:13:20 MST, Doug wrote: > > > I can submit patches for the man page(s) if I can get a grip on what's > > happening where (and when). :-/ What I'd really like to see is a > > chronological listing, like: > > I think you're reading the wrong manpage. I've just had a look at > loader(8) and can't really see what you'd want to improve. Can you > confirm that your loader.8 DESCRIPTION starts with > > "The program called loader is the third stage of FreeBSD's > three stage bootstrap. Yes, that's the one, but as you point out here we're already talking about the third stage. The problem is (as I mentioned in my request) /boot.config bypasses this stage. Various parts of the new loader are well documented, but there is no overall picture of how the various parts fit together. In any case, /sys/boot/README does a pretty good job of explaining, better than the man pages IMO. After reading it several times and a lot of experimentation, it turns out that I want to put the 'boot -P' command in /boot/loader.rc. If I include an autoboot statement, the 'boot -P' command is ignored, so it looks like there is no way to do what I want to do. Note to the boot developers, please consider this a feature request to add the functionality to both autoboot, and boot with flags (like -P). Also, the autoboot prompt message requires "quotes" around it. This is not indicated in /boot/loader.help, and the loader man page does not indicate the ability to specify the message at all. HTH, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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