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

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Warren Block wrote:

> 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.

Just tested this on an 8.1-stable VM, with a file containing only a "-s" 
(no quotes):

/boot.conf   - no effect
/boot.config - boots into single-user mode