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Bug #11581

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'debug' loader option is a little obscure

Added by John Levon about 3 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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Closed
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Normal
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John Levon
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100%

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Medium
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Description

Multiple different developers now have missed that the debug option in the loader menus
translates to -kd (load kmdb, stop at boot). We can probably word the menu entry better.

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Updated by John Levon about 3 years ago

I built a USB with these changes, and verified the menus lined up fine, the toggling behaved properly, and it actually still made the changes to the way the kernel built.

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Updated by Electric Monk about 3 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

git commit c3e6a6edd2f8baf75fe85676012b61c894a7dac3

commit  c3e6a6edd2f8baf75fe85676012b61c894a7dac3
Author: John Levon <john.levon@joyent.com>
Date:   2019-09-10T09:21:46.000Z

    11581 'debug' loader option is a little obscure
    Reviewed by: Jerry Jelinek <jerry.jelinek@joyent.com>
    Reviewed by: Rob Johnston <rob.johnston@joyent.com>
    Reviewed by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
    Reviewed by: Gergő Doma <domag02@gmail.com>
    Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@joyent.com>

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