From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 15:15: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B2037C32B for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:14:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.162.185] (helo=parish.my.domain) by neodymium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12dcW2-0003BB-00; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:25:55 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA00893; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:26:13 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 18:26:13 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Alex Kwan , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting immediatle - skip Hit [Enter] or wait 9 seconds Message-ID: <20000407182612.A238@parish> References: <000901bf9fa4$ae995300$d91e40ca@alexkwan> <289.955021963@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <289.955021963@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:52:43PM +0200 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 06, 2000 at 01:52:43PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 16:45:57 +0800, "Alex Kwan" wrote: > > > At the beginning of booting process will pause at: > > "Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt > > Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds ................" > > How to config skip this step and let the kernel booting immediately > > (no need press [Enter]) ? > > You can shorten or remove the delay by adding this line to > /boot/loader.conf (creating the file if it does not exist): > > autoboot_delay="0" > I tried this, adding autoboot_delay="1" to /boot/loader.conf (actually I had to create the file) but I still get the 10-second countdown. Any idea why? # cd /boot # cat loader.conf autoboot_delay="1" # > Even with no delay, you can still get the loader prompt if you're quick > with your space bar. However, this can be quite annoying and you'd be > well advised to set the delay to at least one second. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent life down here ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message