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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: any way to stop boot2 from waiting for keypress at system startup
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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
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