cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/loader Makefile loader.rc

Scott Long scottl at freebsd.org
Sun Nov 28 21:07:20 PST 2004


M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <41AA904F.708 at freebsd.org>
>             Scott Long <scottl at freebsd.org> writes:
> : M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > In message: <41AA86D1.7070105 at freebsd.org>
> : >             Scott Long <scottl at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> : > : For those who think that ease-of-use is important, please accept my
> : > : apologies.
> : > 
> : > One could easily have a 'safeboot' command, which would disable all
> : > the things that the safe boot menu item used to do.
> : > 
> : > Warner
> : 
> : safeboot isn't the same as 'disable acpi'.  It was actually quite useful
> : to disable ACPI but still leave ATA-DMA and SMP enabled.
> 
> Agreed.  A few wrappers would go a long way is all I'm saying..
> 
> Warner

Where would these 'wrappers' be documented?

Scott


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