82 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
ru
0bdf9fcd67 Improved markup, fixes some spelling and grammar.
Approved by:	re (blanket)
2005-06-14 08:49:14 +00:00
ru
18fac9a47f Markup nits. 2005-05-30 12:33:04 +00:00
jhb
65ffcee053 - 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
sobomax
9005b02e0e 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
des
a2901d4c5e Document the new default init_path.
Reminded by:	ru
MFC after:	2 weeks
2005-02-17 11:14:45 +00:00
scottl
3b185ba05b 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
ru
29e5c34577 Polish the last change. 2004-10-15 06:44:13 +00:00
imp
a76b21d1d4 Document hw.{pci,acpi}.host_start_mem
Requested by: ru@
2004-10-15 00:15:07 +00:00
ru
6131d82787 The "autoboot" command also has a third (optional) parameter. 2004-10-01 00:15:13 +00:00
ru
73b20fb9b8 Retire now useless userconfig_script_*. 2004-09-30 18:23:35 +00:00
ru
7a16aef8e5 The value of $interpret is "OK", in uppercase. 2004-09-30 17:12:05 +00:00
ru
fb9413f278 Fixed the default value of the $prompt variable, document what
happens if $prompt is unset.
2004-09-30 17:11:26 +00:00
ru
25eaf9d98a Setting dump device from loader(8) has not been supported since 2002. 2004-09-30 15:27:37 +00:00
ru
e80e866341 The default value of "bootfile" has been "kernel" since 2000. 2004-09-30 14:06:03 +00:00
ru
ce70f55679 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
ru
b0a3fc4cda `?' is not the same as "help index". 2004-09-30 12:16:23 +00:00
maxim
5ea2d5f70f Bump the manpage date.
Noticed by:	ru
2004-08-18 09:39:24 +00:00
maxim
6cce53d202 Retire hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range.
PR:		bin/70533
Submitted by:	Gavin Atkinson
2004-08-18 09:25:55 +00:00
brian
aae31dbf32 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
brian
2821a50eaa Change the following kernel options to environment variables:
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.
2004-07-08 13:40:33 +00:00
ru
9f45c1d92e mdoc(7) fixes. 2004-07-07 19:57:16 +00:00
ru
42b6f36397 Fixed what appeared to be a hard sentence break. 2004-07-02 21:49:22 +00:00
ru
dd2f259ab8 Markup fixes. 2004-05-16 22:51:36 +00:00
le
de80619ec3 mdoc fix: put the end-of-list macro after the last list element.
Approved by:   grog (mentor)
2004-04-03 12:14:30 +00:00
des
8b1373b33e 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
brueffer
a9748f6066 Capitalize an occurrence of 'ficl' for consistency.
Submitted by:	Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
MFC after:	3 days
2003-06-29 20:57:55 +00:00
ru
ea78c05e0c Fixed the markup and wording of the kern.ipc.nsfbufs tunable.
(It does not modify NSFBUFS, but just overrides it if set.)

Approved by:	re (blanket)
2003-05-17 22:17:23 +00:00
murray
2db1c04684 Fix a bunch of typos and grammatical errors.
PR:		docs/40234
Submitted by:	Chris Pepper <pepper@rockefeller.edu>  (mostly)
MFC After:	3 days
2003-05-04 08:23:24 +00:00
seanc
c80816df35 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
ru
f9c71e51d9 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
trhodes
7e5dbec27a s/hw.pci_allow_unsupported_io_range/hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range/
The former was incorrect and gave an `unknown oid' error.
2003-02-08 19:39:01 +00:00
ru
041d1287e8 Uniformly refer to a file system as "file system".
Approved by:	re
2002-12-12 17:26:04 +00:00
yar
eb711f1390 Eliminate references to defunct kernel tunables.
Approved by:	re
PR:		bin/43343
2002-11-26 13:55:50 +00:00
mdodd
69fdcfb883 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
mdodd
07a965e862 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
iwasaki
605d09c7f9 s/hint.acpi.0.disable/hint.acpi.0.disabled/
Fix device hints entry for disabling acpi(4).
This also should fix the arbitration with apm(4) when both drivers
are enabled.

Note that your /boot/device.hints needs to be updated if you want to
stop auto-loading acpi.ko or disable acpi(4).
2002-08-30 11:11:07 +00:00
ru
b1ac9aa6f0 mdoc(7) police: revert unapproved changes in rev. 1.43, added missing markup bits in rev. 1.45. 2002-08-13 15:06:48 +00:00
obrien
60f8c41a91 Restore autoloading of ACPI module.
Document the approved ways of disabling it.
Submitted by:	Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
2002-08-09 06:07:33 +00:00
keramida
23964fb59a Use present tense in all the verbs, when describing loader's startup.
Most of them are not in a future tense already.
2002-07-15 03:39:34 +00:00
charnier
123ce585c8 The .Nm 2002-07-14 15:19:46 +00:00
schweikh
2c79ab496a Fix a handful of typos and grammar bogons. No content changes.
Translators can ignore this commit.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-05-29 22:57:18 +00:00
ru
104f4547d1 mdoc(7) police: fix a typo and markup. 2002-03-15 15:12:10 +00:00
davidc
d697d82de9 Document the hw.physmem kernel environment variable.
Reviewed by:	alfred
2002-02-21 05:15:52 +00:00
sobomax
baadf3178a CG hard sentence breaks.
Submitted by:	ru
2002-01-23 09:35:55 +00:00
sobomax
4e0549db55 Allow dump device be configured as early as possible using loader(8) tunable.
This allows obtaining crash dumps from the panics occured during late stages
of kernel initialisation before system enters into single-user mode.

MFC after:	2 weeks
2002-01-21 01:16:11 +00:00
ru
d216345eb6 mdoc(7) police: remove hard sentence break which I didn't
submit to Jonathan Mini.
2001-12-14 09:06:11 +00:00
jhb
8c6afa35be - Add 'fwrite' and 'fseek' words for writing to and seeking on files.
- Change the 'fopen' keyword to accept a mode parameter.  Note that this
  will break existing 4th scripts that use fopen.  Thus, the loader
  version has been bumped and loader.4th has been changed to check for a
  sufficient version on i386 and alpha.  Be sure that you either do a full
  world build or install or full build and install of sys/boot after this
  since loader.old won't work with the new 4th files and vice versa.

PR:		kern/32389
Submitted by:	Jonathan Mini <mini@haikugeek.com>
Sponsored by:	ClickArray, Inc.
2001-12-11 00:49:34 +00:00
rwatson
03b1add9d3 o Expand list of tunables documented in loader.8 to include kern.maxusers,
since other related tunables were also documented here.  Add a cross
  reference to tuning(7) for information on setting this value
  appropriately.
2001-12-07 18:05:24 +00:00
murray
f02533b302 Fix typo.
PR:		32455
Submitted by:	"Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
2001-12-03 06:00:24 +00:00
silby
bee3ac5b1e grammar fix: to -> too 2001-10-01 23:41:13 +00:00