Re: bootverbose; persist bootverbose at boot

No that will hard-code it into the build which I used to do but that’s not the right way to do this;

You don’t have to hard-code it into the build to use it, but enabling it in loader.conf doesn’t appear to be documented because boot_verbose isn’t in the doc. The only thing in the docs that I’ve seen is just verbose_loading, maybe there’s a newer doc and I just haven’t seen it yet but as near as I can tell boot_verbose is an option: 

 grep -r verbose_loading
./config.lua:	local verbose = loader.getenv("verbose_loading") or "no"
iampaigeat@MacBookAir lua % grep -r verbose
./config.lua:config.verbose = false
./config.lua:	local verbose = loader.getenv("verbose_loading") or "no"
./config.lua:	config.verbose = verbose:lower() == "yes"
./config.lua:	status = loadModule(modules, not config.verbose)
./menu.lua:		-- verbose boot
./menu.lua:				    "erbose    :", core.verbose)
./core.lua.8:.It Fn core.setVerbose verbose
./core.lua.8:.Ev boot_verbose .
./core.lua.8:.Fa verbose
./core.lua.8:is omitted, toggle the current verbose setting.
./core.lua.8:Resets ACPI, safe mode, single user, and verbose settings to their system
./core.lua:local default_verbose = false
./core.lua:	local boot_verbose = loader.getenv("boot_verbose") or “no”  <---
./core.lua:	default_verbose = boot_verbose:lower() ~= "no"
./core.lua:	core.setVerbose(default_verbose)
./core.lua:function core.setVerbose(verbose)
./core.lua:	if verbose == nil then
./core.lua:		verbose = not core.verbose
./core.lua:	if verbose then
./core.lua:		loader.setenv("boot_verbose", "YES")
./core.lua:		loader.unsetenv("boot_verbose")
./core.lua:	core.verbose = verbose
./core.lua:	core.setVerbose(default_verbose)

> On Feb 9, 2025, at 9:43 AM, Zhenlei Huang <zlei@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Feb 10, 2025, at 1:23 AM, paige@paige.bio wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> bootverbose is defined in `sys/kern/init_main.c`. You may want to have `options  BOOTVERBOSE=1` in the kernel conf file to ease you development.
> 
> ```
> ...
> #ifndef BOOTVERBOSE
> #define BOOTVERBOSE     0
> #endif
> int     bootverbose = BOOTVERBOSE;
> SYSCTL_INT(_debug, OID_AUTO, bootverbose, CTLFLAG_RW, &bootverbose, 0,
>        "Control the output of verbose kernel messages");
> ...
> ```
> 
> See also `sys/conf/NOTES` .
> 
> Best regards,
> Zhenlei
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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