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authorTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-04-27 10:08:35 +0000
committerTom Cosgrove <tom@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-04-27 10:08:35 +0000
commita6fbb0d5794262d14d0b4dd073621abe323c5e1f (patch)
tree16bdf3529a71b9d93637ca61b4b32ad4221efd3d /sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8
parent0cf9d988c4916ba3299a05e1f4f8fb46b8f2c7ff (diff)
Check for Control key held down when starting, and don't read boot.conf
if it is. This gives a way to recover from "switching to com0" when there's no serial cable handy. Bump version numbers. A similar change will be made to amd64 boot soon. ok toby@ deraadt@
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8')
-rw-r--r--sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.86
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8 b/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8
index e265dddc4c5..eb9525a08a3 100644
--- a/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8
+++ b/sys/arch/i386/stand/cdboot/cdboot.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: cdboot.8,v 1.5 2006/10/31 11:29:54 tom Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: cdboot.8,v 1.6 2007/04/27 10:08:34 tom Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Tom Cosgrove
.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Matthias Drochner
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Doug White
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ will look for an
configuration
file on the CD-ROM.
If it finds one, it processes the commands within it.
+.Pa boot.conf
+processing can be skipped by holding down either Control key as
+.Nm
+starts.
.Pp
.Nm
then sits in a loop,