Re: bootverbose; persist bootverbose at boot
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Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:15:43 UTC
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 > > > > On Feb 9, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > backspace 1 > > > > 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 > > > > > >