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Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 15:20:11 -0500 (CDT)
To: "Bennett Hui" <bhui@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: reducing boot manager and kernel startup countdown timers
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Bennett Hui writes:
> how do I change the countdown timer in FreeBSD for the boot manager and the
> kernel startup from the default 10 seconds to something less (or even 0
> seconds)?  Which config files do I have to change?

Try reading the man page for loader(8). You can either use autoboot to
change the setting, or boot to set the boot. However, the details
depend on version and other config files.

	<mike


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