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

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Patrick Mahan wrote: It's at the root - # echo /boot.conf -P Line 78 of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c says: #define PATH_CONFIG "/boot.config" Also, there's boot.config(5). If boot.conf also works, maybe it's only looking

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

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011, Patrick Mahan wrote: It's at the root - # echo /boot.conf -P Line 78 of sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c says: #define PATH_CONFIG "/boot.config" Also, there's boot.config(5). If boot.conf also works, maybe it's only looking for a match on the first 8 or 9 character

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

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Mahan
icial opinion of Adara Networks. > -Original Message- > From: Dan Nelson [mailto:dnel...@allantgroup.com] > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 11:52 AM > To: Patrick Mahan > Cc: Paul Macdonald; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: serial config handbook: /boot.conf or

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

2011-02-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 01), Patrick Mahan said: > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@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 ha

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

2011-02-01 Thread Patrick Mahan
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Macdonald > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:24 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: serial config handbook: /boot.co

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

2011-02-01 Thread 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/ha