Bernd Walter wrote: > I use -h -D in /boot.config > Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. > All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. > The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch > the console back to vga without a terminal.
This is deliberate, FWIW. The old bootblocks privately define RB_DUAL, and you won't find it in <sys/reboot.h> with the other flags like RB_SINGLE, RB_SERIAL, etc. For compatibility, the new bootblocks honor the -D option, as far as their own behavior goes. But they don't pass RB_DUAL, as one of the "howto" flags, on to either the kernel or /boot/loader. So -D is preserved only as a backward-compatibility option (and therefore applies only to stage two of the bootstrap), and /boot/loader knows nothing about it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
