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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Wantted: meaning of boot flags
Date: 31 Oct 1995 00:15:49 +0100
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<witr@spooky.rwwa.com> wrote:
>Could someone please post the meaning of all of the
>boot flags?
I finally revamped the man page for boot(8) recently.
Here's the section about flags.
-abcCdhrsv
Boot flags:
-a ask for the device to install as root
file system during kernel initialisa-
tion
-b do not automatically reboot after shut-
down or crash
-c run UserConfig to modify hardware pa-
rameters for the loaded kernel
-C boot from CDROM
-d enter the DDB kernel debugger (see
ddb(4)) before configuring any device
(except the system's console)
-h toggle serial/graphics console
-r do not establish the root directory of
the file system hierarchy on the device
where the boot file is being loaded
from
-s boot into single-user mode; if the con-
sole is marked as ``insecure'' (see
ttys(5)), the root password must be
entered
-v be verbose during device probing
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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