From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 7 12:35:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00601 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:35:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from assurance.rstcorp.com (assurance.rstcorp.com [206.29.49.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00551 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:35:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by assurance.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA23467; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:35:31 -0400 Received: from sandbox.rstcorp.com(206.29.49.63) by assurance.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma023458; Wed, 7 Oct 98 15:35:10 -0400 Received: from jabberwock.rstcorp.com (jabberwock [206.29.49.98]) by sandbox.rstcorp.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14961; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:35:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from vshah@localhost) by jabberwock.rstcorp.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) id PAA01028; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:35:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199810071935.PAA01028@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> From: "Viren R. Shah" To: Mike Smith Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot loader problems.. In-Reply-To: <199810070713.AAA00967@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199810061735.NAA00682@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <199810070713.AAA00967@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R. Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith writes: Mike> With changes I committed earlier tonight: Mike> set autoboot_delay=5 Mike> set bootfile=/kernel.aout Mike> will do the trick. I may change 'bootfile' to 'kern_bootfile' to be Mike> more consistent with the sysctl name, but I haven't settled on the Mike> convention(s) to use there yet. Works perfectly now. I get the correct countdown regardless of whether I pressed a key before or not. Thanks. Viren -- Viren R. Shah "Design is the successful application of constraints until only an unique product is left" -- Richard W. Pew (from "The Design of Everday Things" by Don Norman) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message