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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
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Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901041430300.317-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> from Alex Zepeda at "Jan 4, 99 02:31:17 pm"
To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex Zepeda)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:19:24 +0200 (SAT)
Cc: mike@smith.net.au, asmodai@wxs.nl, rnordier@nordier.com,
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Alex Zepeda wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > That's normal; the "old" help is only displayed in "compatibility" 
> > mode.  Without a /boot.config, the bootblocks try to be as quiet as 
> > possible.  You may notice the spinner stop for a couple of seconds; if 
> > you hit a key at that point, you'll drop back into "compatibility" mode 
> > again.
> 
> Oh cool!  I was wondering about that for a while, and thought perhaps I
> still had the old boot blocks installed.  How can I reduce the time that
> it stops the spinner, as I've got little or no use for compat. mode?

If you want to patch the code:

Index: boot2.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c,v
retrieving revision 1.16
diff -u -r1.16 boot2.c
--- boot2.c	1998/11/08 18:37:28	1.16
+++ boot2.c	1999/01/05 20:14:59
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
     if (autoboot && !*kname) {
 	if (autoboot == 2) {
 	    memcpy(kname, PATH_BOOT3, sizeof(PATH_BOOT3));
-	    if (!keyhit(0x37)) {
+	    if (!keyhit(0x1)) {
 		load(kname);
 		autoboot = 1;
 	    }

but I'm looking at adding a non-interactive build option which
should invoke /boot/loader immediately, (though it would still
fall back to compat. mode if /boot/loader doesn't exist).

-- 
Robert Nordier

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