From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 12 13:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhenium.btinternet.com (rhenium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDA8537B730; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [62.6.102.58] (helo=parish.my.domain) by rhenium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12fTeb-0003ir-00; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:22:26 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01100; Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:22:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 21:22:35 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: John Baldwin Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Bhishan Hemrajani , Alex Kwan , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting immediatle - skip Hit [Enter] or wait 9 seconds Message-ID: <20000412212235.D236@parish> References: <59008.955538434@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> <200004121136.HAA32349@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200004121136.HAA32349@server.baldwin.cx>; from jhb@freebsd.org on Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 07:36:38AM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 07:36:38AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > 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.) > OK, I re-read the manpages relating to booting/loader and I've found the cause. My /boot/loader.conf just contains: autoboot_delay="2" What were missing though were the 2 lines include /boot/loader.4th start from /boot/loader.rc. This may be a historical accident but my loader.rc has just contained load /kernel load vesa load -t userconfig_script /kernel.config load -t splash_image_data /dawn.bmp load splash_bmp autoboot which I have had since splash screens were first introduced (3.1?). ISTR that I had to create the file; if one existed I certainly wouldn't have deleted anything the system had put there. One of the manpages states that make installworld will only install a loader.rc if one doesn't exist. When was the requirement for include /boot/loader.4th start introduced? Anyway, now that I've added these 2 lines the modified countdown works :) FWIW setting it to 1 is too short, it appears not to pause at all; 2 (just) allows time to catch it. Thanks for the help guys. > > 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/ -- ...and on the eighth day God created UNIX ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message