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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Boot Options
Date: 5 Aug 1996 22:41:34 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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Message-ID: <4u5tau$5gg@jraynard.demon.co.uk>
References: <32022A36.79DD@alaska.net>
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In article <32022A36.79DD@alaska.net>, hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> wrote:
>where are the docs on FreeBSD boot options ???
>haven't seen them anywhere ...
In the man page, of course! (To be fair, I think this only came in
with 2.1.5).
BOOT(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual BOOT(8)
NAME
boot - system bootstrapping procedures
[...]
Boot flags:
-a ask for the device to install as root
file system during kernel initialization
-b do not automatically reboot after shutdown 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 console is
marked as ``insecure'' (see ttys(5)), the root
password must be entered
-v be verbose during device probing
(NB slight re-formatting)
--
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/