encounters a syntax error, and add a tip about adding first
the `vital' options and then experimental ones.
PR: docs/119658
Submitted by: Julian Stacey, jhs at berklix.org
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.
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
they would leave enough elements on the stack that if you escaped to the
loader prompt and then typed 'setenv', it would pull in all of the leaked
junk and cause an exception in the environment. There still seems to be
3 leaked elements, but they don't appear to be coming from this file.
keyboards to work if no PS/2 keyboard is attached. The position in the
menu was chosen to avoid moving option 6 (loader prompt). This should
be a no-op on non-i386/amd64 machines.
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}
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)
bootp -> BOOTP
bootp.nfsroot -> BOOTP_NFSROOT
bootp.nfsv3 -> BOOTP_NFSV3
bootp.compat -> BOOTP_COMPAT
bootp.wired_to -> BOOTP_WIRED_TO
- i.e. back out the previous commit. It's already possible to
pxeboot(8) with a GENERIC kernel.
Pointed out by: dwmalone
BOOTP -> bootp
BOOTP_NFSROOT -> bootp.nfsroot
BOOTP_NFSV3 -> bootp.nfsv3
BOOTP_COMPAT -> bootp.compat
BOOTP_WIRED_TO -> bootp.wired_to
This lets you PXE boot with a GENERIC kernel by putting this sort of thing
in loader.conf:
bootp="YES"
bootp.nfsroot="YES"
bootp.nfsv3="YES"
bootp.wired_to="bge1"
or even setting the variables manually from the OK prompt.
pf/pflog/pfsync as modules. Do not list them in NOTES or modules/Makefile
(i.e. do not connect it to any (automatic) builds - yet).
Approved by: bms(mentor)
is reserved by the loader, and thus any tunable name with that suffix will
be silently discarded.
Document this in the header and man page so that other developers do not
develop so many bumps on the head after banging it against the wall.
Detective work by: Mark Santcroos, grehan
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.
queue items that can be allocated by netgraph and the number of free queue
items that are cached on a private list.
Netgraph places an upper limit on the number of queue items it may allocate.
When there is a large number of netgraph messages travelling through the
system (100k/sec and more) there is a high probability, that messages get
queued at the nodes and netgraph runs out of queue items. In this case the data
flow through netgraph gets blocked. The tuneable for the number of free
items lets one trade memory for performance.
The tunables are also available as read-only sysctls.
PR: kern/47393
Reviewed by: julian
Approved by: jake (mentor)
this is called /boot/nextboot.conf. This file is required to have it's first
line be nextboot_enable="YES" for it to be read. Also, this file is
rewritten by the loader to nextboot_enable="NO"<space> after it is read.
This makes it so the file is read exactly once. Finally, the nextboot.conf
is removed shortly after the filesystems are mounted r/w.
Caution should be taken as you can shoot yourself in the foot. This is only
the loader piece. There will be a tool called nextboot(8) that will manage
the nextboot.conf file for you. It is coming shortly.
Reviewed by: dcs
Approved by: jake (mentor)
