From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 17:13:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14359 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14327 for ; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:13:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00815; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:09:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901010109.RAA00815@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Brian Behlendorf cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: How do I build an a.out kld? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:10:05 PST." <4.1.19981229140706.048df410@hyperreal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:09:06 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >/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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message