docs/108101: /boot/default/loader.conf contains an incorrect comment

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 7 21:17:14 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 4:40:55 pm Brad Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:54:27PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 12:52:25 pm Brad Davis wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:30:25AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > On Monday, September 06, 2010 11:50:07 am Brad Davis wrote:
> > > > > The following reply was made to PR docs/108101; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > > > > 
> > > > > From: Brad Davis <brd at FreeBSD.org>
> > > > > To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
> > > > > Cc:  
> > > > > Subject: Re: docs/108101: /boot/default/loader.conf contains an incorrect
> > > > >  comment
> > > > > Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 09:12:57 -0600
> > > > > 
> > > > >  Confirmed.
> > > > >  
> > > > >  Trying to find out if we can fix the loader, rather than remove the
> > > > >  comment.
> > > > 
> > > > Does it work properly if you use beastie_disable="YES" in loader.conf?
> > > 
> > > It does.
> > 
> > Hmm, presumably it is a regression in beastie.4th then.  Unfortunately I do
> > not know Forth at all.  Something like this might work:
> > 
> > Index: beastie.4th
> > ===================================================================
> > --- beastie.4th	(revision 212292)
> > +++ beastie.4th	(working copy)
> > @@ -241,6 +241,10 @@
> >  		10
> >  	else
> >  		0 0 2swap >number drop drop drop
> > +		dup -1 = if
> > +			exit
> > +		then
> > +		drop
> >  	then
> >  	begin
> >  		dup tkey
> > 
> > (I would test this via PXE or some such at first so you can easily back this
> > out if it fubar's the boot process.)
> 
> I tested it and it seems to ignore it and start counting down anyways.

Hmmm, I'll have to think about this some more.  This code is not easy to parse. :(
Does it still respect autoboot_delay if you set it to a non-default value?

-- 
John Baldwin



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