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

Brad Davis brd at FreeBSD.org
Tue Sep 7 20:41:26 UTC 2010


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.


Regards,
Brad Davis



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