Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2003-01-18 13:12, Andy Farkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4/ You can't interrupt the BTX loader anymore. Used to be able to > > get the ':' prompt before the kernel loaded. > I regularly interrupt my loader at any stage. > Can you elaborate a bit on this one?
boot2 no longer accepts keyboard input. I'm not sure exactly when this happened, but it was some time late last year. I have -Dh in /boot.config, but sometimes I want to use the vga console instead of the serial console. It used to be possible to interrupt boot2 before it loaded /boot/loader, and type '-h' to switch back to the vga console. This doesn't work any more. Now that I think about it, this is actually a pretty serious bug, because if for some reason you happen to install a corrupted or broken loader, you can no longer recover by interrupting boot2 and asking it to load /boot/loader.old instead, nor can you tell it to boot from a backup root partition if the regular one gets corrupted. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
