On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:45:56AM +0400, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> hi,
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:57:26AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > That's correct. '-v' at the boot: prompt does nothing.
>
> But '/kernel' is default kernel name, so "-v" will be option to default
> kernel name (at least FreeBSD 1.1.5.1/2.* does that :-) ).
The boot loader was completly rewritten for the 3.x series.
> > > Q: What I do then ?
> > > A: On boot prompt type "kernel -v"
> > >
> > > Q: So ?
> > > A: All works fine (system is booting in verbose mode)
> >
> > '-v' is an argument to the kernel. Specify it as such. 8)
>
> If we have default kernel name then why I can't pass parameters there
> and have to excplicitly type kernel name ?
You don't have to explicitly specify the kernel name. If the default
kernel has already been loaded you just have to tell it what to do.
'boot -v'
It's pretty consistant with other OS's boot prompt.
-Bill
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