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Date:      Wed, 15 Sep 1999 22:35:52 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Langa Kentane <evablunted@earthling.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: boot loader
Message-ID:  <19990915223552.C5312@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <008701beffc4$51428760$28a8ef9b@impakt>
References:  <008701beffc4$51428760$28a8ef9b@impakt>

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In the last episode (Sep 15), Langa Kentane said:
> How do I change the behaviour of the boot loader.  Like the time it
> waits and what OS to make the default.

man boot0cfg; it doesn't really have a "default OS" to boot from.  It
simply picks whatever partition is currently active and that's the
default.  If you want it to always boot to a certain partition after
the timeout, run boot0cfg with "-o noupdate".

"-t nn" sets the timeout.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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