On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 08:26:42PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote: > Ian Dowse wrote: > >> Okay, but why did 4.x through 5.x through 6.x (these have all been on > >> this particular machine) always boot with 115200 until now? :) > > > They probably used 9600 for the boot blocks, and then switched to > > 115200 when /boot/loader started, so you didn't notice. Now the > > settings from the boot blocks get used by /boot/loader. > > Ah, but this still means that /boot/loader used to use a hardcoded > default specified in /etc/make.conf, and now it doesn't honor that anymore. > Have you checked with documentation?
: comconsole_speed
: Defines the speed of the serial console (i386 and amd64 only).
: If the previous boot stage indicated that a serial console is
: in use then this variable is initialized to the current speed
: of the console serial port. Otherwise it is set to 9600 unless
: this was overridden using the BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED variable
: when loader was compiled. Changes to the comconsole_speed
: variable take effect immediately.
> > Boot blocks need to be installed manually - installworld installs
> > the boot blocks as files in /boot/boot{1,2}, but when booting, it
> > is the boot blocks in the first 8k of the slice that are used, not
> > the /boot/boot{1,2} files.
>
> Okay. I still think it would be wiser to just reinstall them during
> installworld, just to be sure there's no incompatibilities...
>
It's not always possible to do: there can be different boot locations,
the root FS can be a remote one, it can be a diskless system, etc.
Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov
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