Alfred Morgan <alf...@54.org> wrote: > Theo, right on point and I agree with the workarounds statement. I would love > to send > my server in for someone to look at it. I have 3 different machines (2 are > similar) all > experiencing the same problem with the ghost keyboard at the boot prompt. > > What my issue is that the bootloader seems to act differently if the prompt > times out > or if the "boot" command is given. I would expect the boot command with no > arguments to > do the same thing as a timeout at the prompt. > > the boot(8) man page says: > "prompt, which means you are in interactive mode and may enter commands. If > you do not, > boot will proceed to load the kernel with the current parameters after the > timeout > period has expired." > > and boot(8) also says: > "If device or image are omitted, values from boot variables will be used." > > (I find a discrepancy between "current parameters" and "boot variables" but I > take it > to mean the same thing.) > > sysupgrade(8) says: > "The bootloader will automatically choose /bsd.upgrade" > > I'm either missing something or one of these statements doesn't seem to be > entirely > true. I feel stuck with no options.
You claimed sysupgrade does this. sysupgrade does nothing like that. It placed a /bsd.upgrade file, and that is the end of the story. You told boot (via commands in boot.conf) to do something, so it did, before discovering the file.
