Patrick Hartling wrote:
>
> Is there a way to view the contents of a text file (specifically,
> /boot/loader.rc) with BTX? Now that there are all these nifty new modules,
> my kernel is a lot smaller and my /boot/loader.rc is a lot longer. The way
> I have my /boot/loader.rc setup is such that it unloads everythin
> automatically loaded if I drop to the BTX prompt instead of autobooting.
> This is fairly convenient except when I want to boot an alternate kernel but
> still load all the same modules that I use in my default kernel. If there
> isn't such a feature, it would be really nice if there were a 'cat' command
> or something along those lines so that I could read the contents of
> /boot/loader.rc and get everything properly reloaded by hand. Could it be
> added or could I just make my own somehow? Thanks a bunch.
You might be refering to the loader prompt, not the btx prompt. If
you type something as soon as the first "|" is shown, that's btx. If
you wait a little, or enter /boot/loader, then you get loader.
Specifically, if it has processed loader.rc, then you are inside
loader, not btx.
Loader has a command called "autoboot", which runs by default with
10 seconds wait. This one shows a countdown of seconds. If you
interrupt here, you are in loader.
Now, I don't know about btx, but here is what is in for you with
loader...
Conditional loading is possible, though Mike committed it to
RELENG_3 instead of -current, and has not corrected that yet.
bin/9662, in case you want. You can put that code inside
/boot/boot.4th, and it will be loaded before loader.rc, so you
*could* use it inside loader.rc. Unfortunately, *that* still doesn't
work. I have it almost working on my system. I think I'm down to the
last bug (I think that because it works perfectly as long as no
error happens inside the script).
Showing contents of a file happens to be possible too, as soon as
bin/9753 gets in. Jordan promised cat and more for us, but since he
is too busy with his update targets, I decided to get "more" in. :-)
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