From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 05:30:47 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A153106566B for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E008FC19 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1L5Ujad076688 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p1L5UjH0013411 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p1L5UjEY013410; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Alexander Best Message-ID: <20110221053044.GM66849@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20110219024726.GA3909@freebsd.org> <4D5FB2C7.7060200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110219121242.GA55551@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110219121242.GA55551@freebsd.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.4 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:46 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 05:30:47 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 19), Alexander Best said: > On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: > > > but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: > > > btx halted or something like that. > > > > Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should > > allow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again. > > sorry if i wasn't clear enough. my system works perfectly normal. all i > want is to avoid running through the booting stage 3 (i.e. running > /boot/loader), because i want to speed up the boot time. I don't think that's been possible for a long time. /boot/loader shouldn't add more than a fraction of a second if you set its timeout to 0. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com