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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:09:06 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Brian Behlendorf <brian@hyperreal.org>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How do I build an a.out kld? 
Message-ID:  <199901010109.RAA00815@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:10:05 PST." <4.1.19981229140706.048df410@hyperreal.org> 

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> >/boot/boot.conf is supposed to contain any boot commands you'd like to
> >have run (boot.conf is actually a bad name, now that I think about it,
> >since it implies configuration variables rather than actions - boot.rc
> >would have been better, oh well!). 
> 
> So would a blank file tell it to boot the default immediately, or should I
> put "boot /kernel" in there?  It's not that I really NEED those 8 seconds,
> it just seems like it'd be cleaner to boot directly.

If you want to shorten the delay, you can set $autoboot_delay lower; 10 
seconds is just a conservative default, eg:

	set autoboot_delay=3

will bring it down to 3 seconds.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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