replaced by /boot/loader.rc for 3.1 (r42682). In May 2000, this was
documented as deprecated (r61942) (between FreeBSD 4.0 and
4.1). Remove it since it's not been the preferred method in 17 years
and has been deprecated for 16.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8142
but it's hard to find and easy to miss.
Reviewed by: wblock@
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3183
output frequency of the "twiddle" IO progress indicator. The default
value is 1. For larger values N, the next stage of the animation is only
output on every Nth call to the output routine. A sufficiently large N
effectively disables the animation completely.
In an example of boot command:
- rename wd(4) IDE disk drives name to ad(4) for the time being.
- update the used kernel path "/kernel" to the current default.
[It still worked occasionally by looking into the /boot/kernel directory,
so the resulting path was "/boot//kernel/kernel", with two slashes.]
Bump .Dd for this and previous changes.
MFC after: 1 week
Some files keep the SUN4V tags as a code reference, for the future,
if any rewamped sun4v support wants to be added again.
Reviewed by: marius
Tested by: sbruno
Approved by: re
the serial console speed (i386 and amd64 only). If the previous
stage boot loader requested a serial console (RB_SERIAL or RB_MULTIPLE)
then the default speed is determined from the current serial port
speed. Otherwise it is set to 9600 or the value of BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED
at compile time.
This makes it possible to set the serial port speed once in
/boot.config and the setting will propagate to boot2, loader and
the kernel serial console.
- Teach the i386 and pc98 loaders to honor multiple console requests from
their respective boot2 binaries so that the same console(s) are used in
both boot2 and the loader.
- Since the kernel doesn't support multiple consoles, whichever console is
listed first is treated as the "primary" console and is passed to the
kernel in the boot_howto flags.
PR: kern/66425
Submitted by: Gavin Atkinson gavin at ury dot york dot ac dot uk
MFC after: 1 week
user to interrupt autoboot process at all. Currently, even when
`autoboot_delay' is set to 0, loader(8) still allows autoboot process to be
interrupted by pressing any key on the console when the loader reads kernel
and modules from the disk. In some cases (i.e. untrusted environment) such
behaviour is highly indesirable and user should not be allowed to interfere
with the autoboot process at all.
Sponsored by: PBXpress Inc.
MFC after: 3 days
