From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 15 8: 7:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 036E637B400 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:07:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from indigo.sparklehouse.com (dsl092-234-018.phl1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.92.234.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C52443E3B for ; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 08:07:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zeek@sparklehouse.com) Received: from [192.168.1.149] (helo=DARLA) by indigo.sparklehouse.com with smtp (Exim 6.66 #1) id 17qb02-0002gN-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:07:50 -0400 From: "zeek" To: Subject: /boot/[...] loader questions Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:08:23 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm having problems finding specific information in making adjustments to the boot process. I'm trying to do something very simple: boot FreeBSD immediately, no prompt, no splash, no fuss, no circus. This is what I currently see at boot time: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 0 Default: F1 By means of divine intervention I discovered the key sequence "F1 -> F5 -> [enter]" would boot the OS. And ONLY in doing this will the boot process initialize. Why such a funky boot process? Is this normal or is there something wrong with my setup? All I've changed at this point is /boot/defaults/loader.conf: autoboot_delay="3" but this occurs AFTER "boot0" Cheers, -zeek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message