Re: kern/58952: boot selector: view options without executing them

["Paul Goyette via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/58952; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/58952: boot selector: view options without executing them
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:40:55 -0800 (PST)

 On Thu, 2 Jan 2025, Martin Husemann via gnats wrote:
 
 > Would something like this be good enough?
 >
 >  - use 0 to drop to the boot prompt
 >  - use a new command (like "showconfig" or whatever) to dump the full boot.cfg
 >    file
 >  - use a new command (like "paste 1") to copy the last part (after the ":")
 >    of menu item 1 into the edit/line buffer
 >
 > Also I always wondered if we have a way to return from the boot prompt
 > to the menu display.
 
 I envisioned something like
 
 show [ dev | default | timeout | clear | banner [#n] | menu [#n] | userconf ]
 
 Although the 'paste n' option sounds very useful,  :-)