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113 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Steven Hartland
ca94d06e45 Document loader(8) dumpdev option
Add an entry for dumpdev environment variable to loader(8).

MFC after:	1 week
Sponsored by:	Multiplay
2015-11-18 09:42:36 +00:00
Edward Tomasz Napierala
933333caf8 Document md_root in loader(8). The md(4) manual page mentions it,
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
2015-07-25 13:02:41 +00:00
Joel Dahl
f7e00d4bbd mdoc: remove EOL whitespace. 2014-12-29 13:50:59 +00:00
Ian Lepore
d5d9f57726 Use the proper markup for single quotes. 2014-12-27 17:02:09 +00:00
Ian Lepore
af3cafd76c Add a new loader(8) variable, twiddle_divisor, allowing control over the
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.
2014-12-22 22:07:22 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
05d98029e9 Sweep man pages replacing ad -> ada.
Approved by:	re (blackend)
MFC after:	1 week
X-MFC note:	stable/9 only
2013-10-01 18:41:53 +00:00
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
e2082935f0 As discussed on -current, remove the hardcoded default maxswzone.
MFC after:	3 weeks
2012-08-14 17:01:21 +00:00
Warren Block
344c81a166 Fixes to man8 groff mandoc style, usage mistakes, or typos.
PR:		168016
Submitted by:	Nobuyuki Koganemaru
Approved by:	gjb
MFC after:	3 days
2012-05-24 02:24:03 +00:00
Eitan Adler
50d675f7a9 Remove trailing whitespace per mdoc lint warning
Disussed with:	gavin
No objection from:	doc
Approved by:	joel
MFC after:	3 days
2012-03-29 05:02:12 +00:00
Konstantin Belousov
a7e92fc91c Document comconsole_port and comconsole_pcidev loader variables.
MFC after:	2 weeks
2012-01-07 11:16:23 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
8f3f6f16e4 Clean up from the 4.x era.
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
2011-12-27 15:59:51 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
0fc9f11d00 Remove the remnants of /stand/sysinstall.
loader.8:	Sync the default init_path list with kern/init_main.c.

NOTES:		Replace with /rescue/init in the INIT_PATH kernel option.
2011-11-03 12:03:03 +00:00
Attilio Rao
4b547324c0 Disconnect sun4v architecture from the three.
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
2011-05-14 01:53:38 +00:00
Sergey Kandaurov
4053b05b91 Make MSGBUF_SIZE kernel option a loader tunable kern.msgbufsize.
Submitted by:	perryh pluto.rain.com (previous version)
Reviewed by:	jhb
Approved by:	kib (mentor)
Tested by:	universe
2011-01-21 10:26:26 +00:00
John Baldwin
6c96352a06 Remove support for autoloading ACPI from the loader. Leave in the code to
detect ACPI and export info such as the location of the RSDP via hints as
that is still useful.
2010-11-08 21:50:45 +00:00
Ulrich Spörlein
0d9deed52c mdoc: drop redundant .Pp and .LP calls
They have no effect when coming in pairs, or before .Bl/.Bd
2010-10-08 12:40:16 +00:00
Ulrich Spörlein
c0da74038d mdoc: make sure to pass at least one argument to quotation macros 2010-08-02 13:11:35 +00:00
Andrew Thompson
d842ade9a4 Add a helper function for loading geli keys from the loader. 2009-02-16 02:42:17 +00:00
Daniel Gerzo
f1f8583397 - correct variable name
PR:		docs/129448
Submitted by:	Kenyon Ralph <kralph@gmail.com>
MFC after:	Revision 1.91 is merged
2008-12-06 11:21:10 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
a10b45505a Document the per-arch default value of kern.maxbcache. 2007-11-08 11:59:38 +00:00
Stephane E. Potvin
c085f6bbf6 Add documentation for the vm.kmem_size_min and vm.kmem_size_max tunables.
Approved by: njl (mentor, blanket)
2007-05-09 02:37:58 +00:00
John-Mark Gurney
7f2f71862f fixup talk of kern.maxswzone... It's been 32MB for almost 5 years now...
and only supports just over 7GB of swap...

Sound a bit more professional..

Inspired by:	Marc G. Fournier
MFC After:	3 days
2007-05-05 17:36:42 +00:00
Warner Losh
6ae9968c9a Document the init_chroot and init_script variables.
# I didn't check the markup too closely, so doc people, please check

Submitted by: Oliver Fromme
2007-02-04 06:35:10 +00:00
Yaroslav Tykhiy
8eb4aedee6 Note that not all architectures use sendfile(2) buffers;
refer to the respective manpage for details.

MFC after: 3 days
2006-11-29 05:53:25 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
675e8ac08c Replace a rarely used "depuration" with "debugging".
PR:		docs/85127
Submitted by:	Gary W. Swearingen (partially)
MFC after:	3 days
2006-10-13 20:48:17 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
23471380b5 Make the default "init_path" value breakable, so it fits on the
screen's width, thus eliminating a groff(1) warning.

Suggested by:	marck
2006-08-20 09:31:17 +00:00
Dmitry Morozovsky
6bf0d59557 kern.ipc.nmbclusters is sysctl, not compile-time option. Change Dv to Va.
Touch .Dd.

Pointed out by:	ru
MFC after:	1 week
2006-08-18 10:15:01 +00:00
Dmitry Morozovsky
86ddfd1205 Remove references to NMBCLUSTERS which is obsoleted.
PR:		100427
Approved by:	maxim
MFC after:	1 week
2006-08-18 08:03:06 +00:00
John Baldwin
be5d6589e0 Remove more Alpha bits from the boot code including fixing several
stale comments.
2006-05-12 04:09:53 +00:00
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
Ian Dowse
4832a19173 Add a "comconsole_speed" loader variable that can be used to change
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.
2005-08-18 01:39:43 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
6c059e67a9 Improved markup, fixes some spelling and grammar.
Approved by:	re (blanket)
2005-06-14 08:49:14 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
2e79aad4c7 Markup nits. 2005-05-30 12:33:04 +00:00
John Baldwin
8b7c03a7a4 - Add support to the loader for multiple consoles.
- 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
2005-05-27 19:31:00 +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
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
b32a1f4405 Document the new default init_path.
Reminded by:	ru
MFC after:	2 weeks
2005-02-17 11:14:45 +00:00
Scott Long
05d0bf79ed Remove the last vestiges of the userconfig option. None of this actually
did anything, so this commit should be considered a NO-OP.
2004-12-01 04:59:33 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
7a49c8b37d Polish the last change. 2004-10-15 06:44:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
71a77eda7d Document hw.{pci,acpi}.host_start_mem
Requested by: ru@
2004-10-15 00:15:07 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
c09be59eb6 The "autoboot" command also has a third (optional) parameter. 2004-10-01 00:15:13 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
bc19e3ee42 Retire now useless userconfig_script_*. 2004-09-30 18:23:35 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
9fd3ae4889 The value of $interpret is "OK", in uppercase. 2004-09-30 17:12:05 +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
ced68b5b2c Setting dump device from loader(8) has not been supported since 2002. 2004-09-30 15:27:37 +00:00
Ruslan Ermilov
818d0cba7f The default value of "bootfile" has been "kernel" since 2000. 2004-09-30 14:06:03 +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
Ruslan Ermilov
af9cb375e8 `?' is not the same as "help index". 2004-09-30 12:16:23 +00:00
Maxim Konovalov
4233992afa Bump the manpage date.
Noticed by:	ru
2004-08-18 09:39:24 +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
Brian Somers
0ac4013324 Change the following environment variables to kernel options:
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
2004-07-08 22:35:36 +00:00