From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 07:10:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA25710 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA25572 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 07:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA16909; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:05:11 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01426; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 09:50:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199810070750.JAA01426@semyam.dinoco.de> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:22:10 EDT." <199810070022.UAA12234@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 09:50:31 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > on my Dell Latitude laptop (with an Award BIOS, but I'm not sure and > don't have it handy at the moment), I don't get the countdown, either. Turn off the boot password if you have set it and don't make any keypress before the boot loader comes up. That "solved" the problem for me. Of course no real solution but if it works then it's most likely the same effect I had Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message