https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206300
Bug ID: 206300
Summary: /boot/defaults/loader.conf nextboot_enable should have
a doc comment
Product: Base System
Version: 10.2-STABLE
Hardware: i386
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: conf
Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Reporter: jo...@piquan.org
CC: freebsd-i...@freebsd.org
CC: freebsd-i...@freebsd.org
In /boot/defaults/loader.conf, there is an option nextboot_enable="NO". From
this name, I thought that this would need to be enabled for the nextboot(8)
command to work.
In actuality, it needs to be "NO" under normal circumstances, and is changed to
"YES" by nextboot(8). Turning it on when nextboot.conf isn't written used to
be harmless, but after some recent loader.4th changes, it now causes the
bootloader to get a stack underflow and fail.
It would be useful to add a comment to /boot/defaults/loader.conf describing
the variable's correct use. For instance:
# Temporarily set to "YES" by nextboot(8) in nextboot_conf to request special
processing
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