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Date:      Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:44 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2
Message-ID:  <20110221053044.GM66849@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110219121242.GA55551@freebsd.org>
References:  <20110219024726.GA3909@freebsd.org> <4D5FB2C7.7060200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110219121242.GA55551@freebsd.org>

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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



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