hi,
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 03:09:44AM -0700, Bill Swingle wrote:
> > > > Q: What I do then ?
> > > > A: On boot prompt type "kernel -v"
> > > >
> > > > Q: So ?
> > > > A: All works fine (system is booting in verbose mode)
> > >
> > > '-v' is an argument to the kernel. Specify it as such. 8)
> >
> > If we have default kernel name then why I can't pass parameters there
> > and have to excplicitly type kernel name ?
>
> You don't have to explicitly specify the kernel name. If the default
> kernel has already been loaded you just have to tell it what to do.
>
> 'boot -v'
You're talking about loader(8) boot stage and I about boot2 stage (before
loader(8) execution)
> It's pretty consistant with other OS's boot prompt.
Ok, I see that I'll not get answer to my question except "do it otherwise".
Sorry.
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