Re: setting bootverbose (or boothowto) from the kernel config file ?

Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Also, what is exactly the relation between the two variables
> 'boothowto' (apparently set through the loader and containing
> various flags) and 'bootverbose' (which is a sysctl) ?
> Different parts of the kernel use one or the other to control
> verbose output, and i am not sure if, e.g. setting RB_VERBOSE
> in 'boothowto' also sets bootverbose...
>   

See the FSG3 patch I just posted to embedded_at_ yesterday. I pulled some 
of that from ia64. Both amd64 and i386 implement it in init_i386() -- 
the early enviroment stuff happens during the MD startup and isn't 
implemented the same in all architectures.