From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 4 14:29:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14649 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:29:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (pm3-19.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.85.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14640 for ; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:29:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA00499; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:31:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 14:31:17 -0800 (PST) From: Alex Zepeda X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Mike Smith cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Robert Nordier , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bootblocks / Bootloader In-Reply-To: <199901032052.MAA07318@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > That's normal; the "old" help is only displayed in "compatibility" > mode. Without a /boot.config, the bootblocks try to be as quiet as > possible. You may notice the spinner stop for a couple of seconds; if > you hit a key at that point, you'll drop back into "compatibility" mode > again. Oh cool! I was wondering about that for a while, and thought perhaps I still had the old boot blocks installed. How can I reduce the time that it stops the spinner, as I've got little or no use for compat. mode? - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message