Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2013 08:40:57 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: tak.official@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup Message-ID: <20130702084057.143d3eeb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAPkyVLxr-aUSq77XAMjhGSY4rJm4xo9LhcMXsxQDL4_ETT_ong@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPkyVLxr-aUSq77XAMjhGSY4rJm4xo9LhcMXsxQDL4_ETT_ong@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2 Jul 2013 11:05:22 +0430, takCoder wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > i wanna stop boot2 from getting a input string to change default boot > point.. is there any way around, other than changing boot2.c source code to > disable this feature?? > > As you may know, on system-startup, if you press any key, you will see the > following prompt, waiting for you to enter related string: > FreeBSD/x86 boot > Default: 0:ad(0,a) > boot: > > I checked it and found out that i can change boot2.c file to disable this > section.. but I'd rather find another way.. Would you please let me know > whether there are any other ways to do so? Without having checked it, but is this what you are searching for? In /boot/loader.conf: autoboot_delay="-1" >From /boot/defaults/loader.conf: Delay in seconds before autobooting, set to -1 if you don't want user to be allowed to interrupt autoboot process and escape to the loader prompt, set to "NO" to disable autobooting I'm using autoboot_delay="1" to limit the time which the system is waiting before continuing the boot process. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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