printing boot probe messages

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Fri Dec 28 02:38:05 PST 2007


Chuck Robey <chuckr at chuckr.org> writes:
> Anyhow, in the midst of all the screwing around, I now find that, on the
> Ascii-graphics FreeBSD loader UI, if I choose Option #5 (verbose loading)
> then the printing of the regular probe messages starts back up (this is NOT
> the verbose probe messages, it's the printing of the regular probing
> messages.)  I have to admit, I don't clearly know the difference, in
> setting the variables, between verbose loading the verbose probing.  I know
> the difference in what prints, but I don't know how to set this up
> permanently without getting me that verbose probing, which I would like to
> avoid.

I have absolutely no idea what "verbose loading" and "verbose probing"
mean.  All I know of is the boot_verbose loader variable, which enables
additional kernel messages.  It does not affect the way the kernel is
loaded, or the way devices are probed.

DES
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