Re: bootverbose; persist bootverbose at boot

On Sun, Feb 9, 2025, 11:31 AM <paige@paige.bio> wrote:

> > boot_verbose=yes in loader.conf.
>
> Yes—thank you I found that, mentioned in a previous e-mail, I just looked
> at the Lua source in stand/ and found it.  But yeah, I noticed at least one
> other person from a Google search that was trying to figure out how to do
> that, everything points to the menu or the prompt (-v) being the only two
> options. Tunable I assume you mean via sysctl that might also be useful,
> too but I was just going to say the documentation for loader.conf
> specifically:
>
> https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?loader.conf(5)
>
> It would be nice if it were mentioned in there, too.
>

Already pushed a fix before your email to add it..

Warner


-P
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> > On Feb 9, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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> > On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:56 AM <paige@paige.bio> wrote:
> > Anybody know how to do this or if you can? Really sucks I keep having to
> go wait for the boot loader (bios is slow to wait on) hit 7 then hit 6
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> > boot_verbose=yes in loader.conf.
> >
> > debug.bootverbose can be set at runtime with sysctl (I should make that
> a tuneable as well, but it isn't today). I should also add it to
> loader.conf(5). It's way more important than verbose_loading which is
> limited to being verbose around loading klds.
> >
> > It's obscurely documented in loader.efi(8):
> >            boot flag        loader variable        Kernel RB_ flag
> >            -a               boot_askme             RB_ASKNAME
> >            -c               boot_cdrom             RB_CDROM
> >            -d               boot_ddb               RB_KDB
> >            -r               boot_dfltroot          RB_DFLTROOT
> >            -D               boot_multiple          RB_MULTIPLE
> >            -m               boot_mute              RB_MUTE
> >            -g               boot_gdb               RB_GDB
> >            -h               boot_serial            RB_SERIAL
> >            -p               boot_pause             RB_PAUSE
> >            -P               boot_probe             RB_PROBE
> >            -s               boot_single            RB_SINGLE
> >            -v               boot_verbose           RB_VERBOSE
> > but it also works for BIOS booting. The loader man pages are a mess. A
> lot of that is my fault. You can set any of the above to "yes" or "no".
> >
> > Warner
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