The first time a FreeBSD system boots, it obtains a hostuuid and hostid
from the smbios.system.uuid kernel environment variable. If this value
is found to be invalid, a warning is printed and the boot pauses for
two seconds to give the user a chance to read it.
If the FreeBSD kernel is launched directly in a virtual machine rather
than via the FreeBSD boot loader, the smbios.system.uuid environment
variable might not be set; in this case, there's no need to alert the
user and delay the boot process since the lack of a "hardware" uuid is
entirely expected.
Distinguish between the cases of "invalid UUID" and "no UUID", warning
and delaying the boot only in the former case. In both cases we still
generate a random UUID in software.
Reviewed by: delphij
Sponsored by: https://www.patreon.com/cperciva
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D36185
startmsg is a new rc.subr(8) function function to be used instead of
echo(1) when for boot messages. It replaces the often forgotten
check_startmsgs && echo ...
with
startmsg ...
No functional change intended.
I adjusted the commit message and did some final clean-ups of the patch
before committing.
PR: 255207
Reported by: Jose Luis Duran <jlduran@gmail.com>
Reviewed by: imp, 0mp
Approved by: imp (src)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34514
The reasons for this are forward looking to pkgbase:
* /sbin/init is a special binary; try not to replace it with
every package update because an rc script was touched.
(a follow-up commit will make init its own package)
* having rc in its own place will allow more easy replacement
of the rc framework with alternatives, such as openrc.
Discussed with: brd (during BSDCam), kmoore
Requested by: cem, bz
PR: 231522
Approved by: re (gjb)
