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rc.d/hostid: Skip warning on systems w/o smbios
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Authored by cperciva on Aug 12 2022, 11:49 PM.
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Summary

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.

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