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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ruslan Ermilov
4750e08f7b Add loader(8) variables for RB_DFLTROOT, RB_MUTE, and RB_PAUSE:
"boot_dfltroot", "boot_mute", and "boot_pause" respectively.
2005-09-22 15:06:58 +00:00
John-Mark Gurney
2fd290094e remove a pointless comment with a more helpful one...
Submitted by:	Tobias Roth
MFC after:	5 days
2005-07-25 17:18:25 +00:00
Maxim Sobolev
4d87b291ad Extend `autoboot_delay' handling - is this variable is set to -1 don't allow
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
2005-05-19 23:03:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
99e085d9a8 document host_start_mem.
# feel free to wordsmith.

Suggested by: ru@
2004-10-15 06:59:07 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
8d02a378aa Back out changes which were introduced to delay mounting root file system.
Those changes were made on gmirror needs, but now gmirror handles this
by itself.
2004-10-05 11:26:43 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c09be59eb6 The "autoboot" command also has a third (optional) parameter. 2004-10-01 00:15:13 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
3075c18308 Don't give instructions on how to disable ACPI in the MI section.
For novice users, beastie.4th can just do it.  Expert users can
read ACPI instructions by typing "help ACPI".
2004-09-30 21:57:16 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
25d34c013f Fixed the default value of the $prompt variable, document what
happens if $prompt is unset.
2004-09-30 17:11:26 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a9ad4b2bc7 Mention "help index" in the online help, and provide a help for
the `?' command.
2004-09-30 13:47:30 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
69a02bda38 Document boot_cdrom, boot_multicons, and boot_serial.
Reduce diffs between help.common and loader(8).
Mention that boot_userconfig is currently a no-op.
2004-09-30 13:09:00 +00:00
Pawel Jakub Dawidek
12f5309d62 Document vfs.root.mountdelay value.
Reminded by:	ru
2004-09-24 09:33:48 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
ac92ad1b5d Retire hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range.
PR:		bin/70533
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson
2004-08-18 09:25:55 +00:00
John-Mark Gurney
bd8fc733cb remove /boot/kernel from the default path.. There is already code that
will prepend the current kernel booting...  This prevents a problem of
loading /boot/kernel's modules when a different kernel has no modules,
but you left your module_load="YES" in loader.conf...

Reviewed by:	dcs (minus the help part)
2004-08-06 15:06:06 +00:00
Ceri Davies
4529da5f33 Correct a documentation bug.
Approved by:	jhb
2004-07-29 20:09:25 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
84344f9fbf Rename the kern.vm.kmem.size tunable to the more logical vm.kmem_size. To
assure backward compatibility (conditional on !BURN_BRIDGES), look it up
by its old name first, and log a warning (but accept the setting) if it
was found.  If both the old and new name are defined, the new name takes
precedence.

Also export vm.kmem_size as a read-only sysctl variable; I find it hard to
tune a parameter when I don't know its default value, especially when that
default value is computed at boot time.
2004-01-27 15:59:38 +00:00
David E. O'Brien
1536224009 Since we insist on loading the POS ACPI by default, give the poor user
instructions on the main help screen for disabling it.
2003-05-05 07:33:12 +00:00
Tom Rhodes
ff470880ba Fix a few spelling errors.
Submitted by:	Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.dyndns.org> via -doc.
2003-03-07 03:24:38 +00:00
Sean Chittenden
6087c960b5 Document the tunable kern.ipc.nsfbufs in help.common and loader.8. Small
nearby grammar fixup that saves a line of display while in the loader
(help set tunables), but reuses the line for kern.ipc.nsfbufs.

Approved by:	 roam
2003-03-04 23:46:29 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6de61153e8 FreeBSD 5.0 has stopped shipping /modules 2.5 years ago. Catch
up with this further by excluding /modules from the (default)
kern.module_path.
2003-03-03 22:53:35 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
bf1446b754 Minimally document hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch.
Requested by:	 Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
2003-01-15 05:26:10 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
df86a3fec1 Eliminate references to defunct kernel tunables.
Approved by:	re
PR:		bin/43343
2002-11-26 13:55:50 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
6b501f246a Document loader tunables hw.pci.enable_io_modes and
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range.

Submitted by:	 Hiten Pandya <hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com>
Approved by:	 re (murray)
2002-11-13 09:43:53 +00:00
Matthew N. Dodd
d7545b110c Loader tunable 'machdep.disable_mtrrs'.
Sysctl of same name to reflect status.

Submitted by:	 jhb
Approved by:	 re (murray)
MFC after:	 1 day
2002-11-13 09:37:43 +00:00
Mark Peek
b0677c345c Change help documentation for bootfile and module_path to reflect
the actual code. Both use a ";" (not a ",") to delimit entries.

PR:		39679
Submitted by:	Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
MFC after:	3 days
2002-07-07 20:40:31 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
cb36afb649 The entry for the 'set' command no longer has a list of variables.
PR:		32454
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen <swear@blarg.net>
MFC after:	3 days
2001-12-04 12:01:00 +00:00
Mike Smith
300451c472 Some more i386-only BIOS-friendliness:
- Add support for using the PCI BIOS functions for configuration space
   accesses, and make this the default.

 - Make PNPBIOS the default (obsoletes the PNPBIOS config option).

 - Add two new boot-time tunables to disable each of the above.
2000-04-16 20:48:33 +00:00
Mike Smith
390cab70e1 Update to reflect use of : not ; as separator in paths passed to the
kernel.
1999-12-07 18:31:43 +00:00
Mike Smith
396641ab13 Document the hw.physmem tunable. (There should be arch-specific tunable
help sections.)
1999-07-02 20:38:05 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
5f967b24fc Make the location of init(8) tunable at boot time. 1999-04-20 21:15:13 +00:00
Mike Smith
8a252a3737 Fix syntax for boot command
Noticed by:	Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>
1999-03-14 19:55:01 +00:00
Daniel C. Sobral
47749087ac Make use of prototypes to silence warnings.
Change include() so it will be able to load files with forth code,
instead of just builtins. Remove #@- from the include section of the
help file, since they don't work in the new version of include, unless
BOOT_FORTH is not defined.

Change bf_run() so it will return the result returned by ficlExec(). Also,
make bf_run() push "interpret" to be executed by ficlExec(), since ficlExec()
doesn't do it by itself. (Things worked previously because nothing
recursed through ficlExec() by the way of bf_run()).

Change/extend comments on builtin behavior.

Search for "interpret" at the end of bf_init(), so /boot/boot.4th can
provide it's own version.

Remove dead code.
1999-02-04 17:06:46 +00:00
Mike Smith
617aa5cdf8 Mention the net.inet.tcp.tcbhashsize tunable. 1999-02-03 09:07:33 +00:00
Jordan K. Hubbard
ae84df99c4 Whoops! Forgot to include Mr. Sobray's more command in the last set
of commits.

Submitted by:	Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
1999-02-01 06:08:21 +00:00
Mike Smith
07dd15c173 Document the machdep.pccard.pcic_irq tunable, which allows the user to tune
the interrupt which will be given to the PCIC.  If the value supplied is
illegal or not available, interrupts will be turned off and polled mode
used instead.
1999-01-29 01:16:50 +00:00
Mike Smith
b7fd9e91ed bootstrap.h
help.common
interp.c
	Rename the 'source' command to 'include' in order to avoid conflict
	with the ANS Forth command of the same name. (kern/9473)

interp_forth.c:
	Changes from kern/9412 (EXCEPTION word), kern/9442 (TIB buffer
	sizing) and an improved version of kern/9460 (set
	version numbers).

load_aout.c:
	Trim some obsolete #if 0'ed cruft.

pnp.c:
	Tidy the pnpscan output, turn off the module scanning until we
	sort out how to do it right.

PR:		kern/9412 kern/9442 kern/9460 kern/9473
Submitted by:	PRs from Daniel Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com>
1999-01-22 23:50:14 +00:00
Mike Smith
4291c3b7ad Add 'set tunables' help, list the kernel tunable values that can currently
be overridden.
1999-01-21 22:03:16 +00:00
Mike Smith
8719fada36 Reformat help to improve subtopic display appearance, other minor
cleaning.  The 'help' command in the loader should now be usable and
hopefully informative.
1998-12-15 14:32:17 +00:00
Mike Smith
aa203600d5 Build the composite help file from the generic and architecture-specific
help files, sorting topics and subtopics to allow maximum flexibility.
1998-12-15 14:21:30 +00:00
Mike Smith
bcda95d923 Add documentation for $rootdev. 1998-11-13 23:53:02 +00:00
Mike Smith
dc8be6a8f5 - Add a new command 'lsdev' to list devices which might be likely to host
filesystems.
 - New 'help' command and data in the help.* files (not yet installed),
   provides topic and subtopic help, indexes, etc.
 - Don't crash if the user tries to set an invalid console.  Be helpful
   instead.
 - Expand tabs (badly) on the i386 video console.
 - Some minor cosmetic changes.
1998-10-31 02:53:12 +00:00