Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 17:42:57 -0500 From: "Donald J. Maddox" <root@scsn.net> To: Chuck <crtb@capecod.net> Cc: jlemon@americantv.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gawd! Am I a newbie forever? Message-ID: <19971111174257.56903@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199711112104.QAA00910@capecod.net>; from Chuck on Tue, Nov 11, 1997 at 04:04:46PM -0500 References: <199711112104.QAA00910@capecod.net>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 1997 at 04:04:46PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
> jlemon@americantv.com sez:
> >On Nov 11, 1997 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
> >> Just when I thought I had the hang of it :-(
> >>
> >> Whenever I boot one of my two 2.2.2R systems, I get the configuration
> >> menu before the boot continues. I have to hit return to finish the
> >> boot. The other system boots cleanly.
> >>
> >> I can't find anything in the configuration menu which says to turn the
> >> damn thing off! The system is completely configured, runs like a top,
> >> and yet .. I can't boot hands off. If I shutdown -r now, and come back
> >> ten minutes later, it's sitting there in that silly menu offering me
> >> three choices, the first of which gets the boot rolling.
> >
> >Try checking /boot.config; this contains default options that are passed
> >to `boot' when it comes up. It sounds like you have ``-c'' in this file,
> >which would always drop you in the UserConfig menu on a reboot.
> >--
> >Jonathan
>
> Sorry, there isn't any /boot.config. The root directory has no plain
> files except for /kernel*, .cshrc, .profile, COPYRIGHT and new-registration.
> The dotfiles are unexceptional. --Yes, finding something like a file
> named /boot.config would be a dead giveaway!
> Chuck
It looks like you compiled your kernel with options USERCONFIG_BOOT.
Recompile without this option and this problem will go away.
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