From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 4:38:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E00637B62A for ; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 04:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA32349; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:36:38 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200004121136.HAA32349@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59008.955538434@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: booting immediatle - skip Hit [Enter] or wait 9 seconds Cc: Mark Ovens Cc: Mark Ovens , Bhishan Hemrajani , Alex Kwan , questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12-Apr-00 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 07:16:19 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > >> What makes you think /boot/loader.conf isn't being read? > > Mark said that he has autoboot_delay="1" or some such in > /boot/loader.conf but that the countdown persists. Did he use 'set autoboot_delay'? You can't use 'set' in loader.conf. Mark, can you post your /boot/loader.conf file? It should be short. (Mine's all of 3 lines.) > Ciao, > Sheldon. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message