serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config

[Patrick Mahan]

It's at the root -

  # echo /boot.conf
  -P

Patrick

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Patrick Mahan
Lead Technical Kernel Engineer
Adara Networks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnelson at allantgroup.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:52 AM
> To: Patrick Mahan
> Cc: Paul Macdonald; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or /boot.config
>
> In the last episode (Feb 01), Patrick Mahan said:
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> > questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Macdonald
> > > I'm trying to get the dell bmc +sol serial thing working, kin dof
> > > getting there, but noticed this inconsistency in the handbook:
> > >
> > > Is it boot.conf or boot.config?
> > >
> > > Create boot.config in the root directory of the a partition on the boot
> > > drive.
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-
> 1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html#SERIALCONSOLE-HOWTO
> > >
> > > 7.2 Create the /boot.conf file
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/console-
> server/freebsd.html
> >
> > Here on my HP Proliant 350's I use -
> >
> >   /boot.conf
> >
> > This is with FreeBSD 8.0.
>
> I don't see anything in /usr/src/sys/boot that reads a "/boot.conf".  boot2
> reads "/boot.config", and the loader will read "/boot/boot.conf" but that
> path is deprecated.
>
> I have -D in /boot.config on my SOL-enabled Dell 1950, which allows for
> both
> serial and keyboard input during the boot process.
>
> --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson at allantgroup.com