On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Evans) writes: > : At bootup, boot2 is the program which displays a - sign on the console > : and if you hit the space bar it comes up with a prompt allowing you to > : change the drive and partition of the loader program, e.g. > : ad(0,e)/boot/loader. > : > : At least that's how it used to work. Nowadays, judging from my current > : of October 20, 2002, the - sign is no longer displayed and boot2 goes > : straight through to the loader. > : > : Is this a bug, perhaps fixed, or has the prompt been taken out to make > : room for UFS2 code? I've looked through the commit logs and there > : is nothing to indicate the prompt has been taken out. > > It appears that we set autoboot to 1. If there is a /boot.config and > we cannot parse it, we set it to 0. When set to 0 we prompt. > However, it looks like there might be a bug, or it might be a boot0cfg > issue: > I put -z in /boot.config as an illegal option, in the hope that it would disable autoboot. It does, the prompt is now displayed, but it does not allow you to type anything in. Even a carriage return has no effect. The result is you cannot boot at all. *** warning: do not try this unless you have a way of restoring boot.config :-( To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
