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Author SHA1 Message Date
Devin Teske
f697065fda Add a try-include word (which acts the same as "include") and use it to
conditionally include (but ignore failures) /boot/loader.rc.local and
/boot/menu.rc.local -- to make customizing the menu easier.

Reviewed by:	alfred
Discussed on:	-hackers
2013-11-17 18:12:17 +00:00
Devin Teske
ea1ed0c224 Defer loading of kernel and modules if the beastie menu is enabled. Add a
kernel selection menu to the beastie menu. List of kernels is taken from
`kernels' in loader.conf(5) as a space (or comma) separated list of names
to display (up to 9). If not set, default value is "kernel kernel.old".
Does not validate that kernels exist because the next enhancement will be
to allow selection of the root device.

Discussed on:	-current
MFC after:	3 days
2013-11-04 20:28:10 +00:00
Devin Teske
9d93dba489 Fix a regression caused by SVN r222417.
Prior to r222417, setting `password' in loader.conf(5) did not prevent boot
but instead only prevented changes to boot options by prompting for password
if autoboot failed or the user interrupted the countdown sequence.
After r222417 the same machine with `password' set in loader.conf(5) would no
longer boot without _always_ entering the password.

This patch restores the old (8.x and older) functionality for password in
loader.conf(5) while adding a new bootlock_password feature to replace the
edge-case should anybody desire the regressed functionality (HINT: great for
PXE servers and/or private distributions).

loader.conf(5) was updated to be more clear with-respect to password setting
(previous text was misleading).

Documentation (loader.conf(5) and check-password.4th(8)) has been updated to
include notes on the new bootlock_password setting.

Special thanks to Alex Verbod for bringing this to my attention and helping to
refine the loader.conf(5) text.

PR:		conf/170110
Submitted by:	Vitaly Zakharov <ded3axap@gmail.com>
Reviewed by:	Alexander Verbod <alexander.verbod@gmail.com>
2012-12-12 17:49:01 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
0227791b40 Expand *n't contractions. 2005-02-13 22:25:33 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
ab737c5f07 Setting "kernel" to an absolute path is a bad idea because
after loading such a kernel, "module_path" will be set to
an insane value.  Fixed example by providing an equivalent
setting.  For the record, when automatically loading a
kernel (commands "boot" and "boot-conf"), the following is
tried, in this order:

	path=/boot/${kernel} file=${bootfile}
	path=/boot/${kernel} file=${kernel}
	path=${kernel} file=${bootfile}
	path=${kernel} file=${kernel}
	path=${module_path} file=${kernel}
2004-09-30 21:48:51 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
8d2987d91e mdoc(7) police: Get rid of hard sentence breaks. 2002-08-13 15:09:33 +00:00
Philippe Charnier
4251a2c1b4 The .Nm set of commands 2002-07-14 15:21:28 +00:00
Jens Schweikhardt
730a2da5de Fix a handful of typos and grammar bogons. No content changes.
Translators can ignore this commit.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-05-30 09:24:01 +00:00
Josef Karthauser
1063e12617 Replace /kernel with /boot/kernel/kernel.
PR:		docs/37757
Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
2002-05-09 11:47:42 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c5e7e03a14 Spell "FreeBSD" with "F" and "BSD" in uppercase. 2001-08-13 16:33:00 +00:00
Dima Dorfman
70d51341bf mdoc(7) police: remove extraneous .Pp before and/or after .Sh. 2001-07-09 09:54:33 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
1bfea903ed Prepare for mdoc(7)NG. 2001-01-16 09:39:23 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
d5874785b9 mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro. 2000-11-20 17:05:46 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
869e9b2096 Update boot and boot-conf descriptions to reflect new and old changes.
Add a warning in loader(8) that boot might be changed by loader.4th.
2000-09-08 21:39:31 +00:00
Alexey Zelkin
fce5ff3017 Remove comments left since mdoc.template time or just useless comments 1999-10-30 15:38:20 +00:00
Peter Wemm
c3aac50f28 $Id$ -> $FreeBSD$ 1999-08-28 01:08:13 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
c4b16f49fc Add "initialize" to loader.4th, so running "start" is not actually needed. 1999-05-14 18:59:27 +00:00
Joseph Koshy
5d48be470c Correct misuse of .Nm.
PR:		docs/11449
Submitted by:	Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@jp.freebsd.org>
1999-05-03 07:25:50 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
2de24e689e Add loader.4th man page (worst man page I ever wrote -- reviews
are welcomed). Correct a nasty bug in loader.4th before anyone
notices, add a couple of features.
1999-04-24 17:25:35 +00:00