Re: bootverbose; persist bootverbose at boot

From: <paige_at_paige.bio>
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:23:56 UTC
Dude I don’t think you understand, I learned about loader.conf about a year ago I know there’s a man page for it and it’s not as if I didn’t at some point arrive at that conclusion too. 

verbose_loading
If set to "YES", module names will be displayed as they
are loaded.

No that’s not what I want, doesn’t sound like it anyway:

grep -r bootverbose | head -n 16
./xen/xen_common.c: if (bootverbose && !warned) {
./compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_firmware.c: /* Set independent on "warn". To debug, bootverbose is avail. */
./compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_i2cbb.c: if (bootverbose)
./compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_80211.c: if (bootverbose)
./compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_cmdline.c: if (bootverbose) {
./compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_i2c.c: if (bootverbose)
./compat/linuxkpi/common/src/linux_i2c.c: if (bootverbose)
./compat/x86bios/x86bios.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_linker.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_linker.c: if (bootverbose)
./kern/kern_ctf.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_ctf.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_ctf.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_ctf.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_ctf.c: if (bootverbose) {
./kern/kern_jail.c: if (bootverbose && !valid) {

There are no options for loader.conf which speak to this as near as I can tell at least not based on that man page, guess I can just try random stuff like verbose_loading but… I think I already did and it wasn’t helpful. The only way I’ve been able to activate the option is at the boot prompt, hit 7 hit 6 backspace 1 which sucks, I’m trying to  write a driver and its a pain in the ass.


> On Feb 9, 2025, at 9:07 AM, Kirill Orlov <slowdive@me.com> wrote:
> 
> There are some options in /boot/loader.conf
> 
> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?loader.conf(5)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> -K.
> 
>> On Feb 9, 2025, at 11:56, paige@paige.bio wrote:
>> 
>> Anybody know how to do this or if you can? Really sucks I keep having to go wait for the boot loader (bios is slow to wait on) hit 7 then hit 6 backspace 1 
>> 
>>