From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 16: 8:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cytosine.dhs.org (cx272244-a.orng1.occa.home.com [24.1.177.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA0437B898 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:08:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bhishan@cytosine.dhs.org) Received: (from bhishan@localhost) by cytosine.dhs.org (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e37N6GG16097; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:06:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Bhishan Hemrajani Message-Id: <200004072306.e37N6GG16097@cytosine.dhs.org> Subject: Re: booting immediatle - skip Hit [Enter] or wait 9 seconds In-Reply-To: <20000407182612.A238@parish> from Mark Ovens at "Apr 7, 2000 06:26:13 pm" To: Mark Ovens Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:06:16 -0700 (PDT) Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Alex Kwan , questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm not sure, but I have a hunch. When it loads for me, it says that it loads /boot/defaults/loader.conf. So, you might have to put it in that file. --bhishan > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message