serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Feb 2 01:32:03 UTC 2011


On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Patrick Mahan wrote:

> It's at the root -
>
>  # echo /boot.conf
>  -P

Line 78 of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c says:

   #define PATH_CONFIG     "/boot.config"

Also, there's boot.config(5).  If boot.conf also works, maybe it's only 
looking for a match on the first 8 or 9 characters.


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