From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 07:38:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27705 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tim.xenologics.com (tim.xenologics.com [194.77.5.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27591 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 07:38:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tim.xenologics.com (8.8.5/8.8.8) with UUCP id QAA09581 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:35:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from semyam.dinoco.de (semyam.dinoco.de [127.0.0.1]) by semyam.dinoco.de (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08577; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:26:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from seggers@semyam.dinoco.de) Message-Id: <199810061426.QAA08577@semyam.dinoco.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:18:45 +0200." <199810060918.LAA00927@semyam.dinoco.de> Cc: seggers@semyam.dinoco.de Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 16:26:47 +0200 From: Stefan Eggers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > that the "autoboot 5" I specified in /boot/boot.conf does get executed > but has no count down. I have to press ENTER to get it to boot. My Looking at the code I saw that it uses VM86 to ask the BIOS for the time. The system with the problem has an ASUS board (P55TP4XE) with an Award BIOS 4.51PG, version 2.02 and is equipped with a Pentium 100. Stefan. -- Stefan Eggers Lu4 yao2 zhi1 ma3 li4, Max-Slevogt-Str. 1 ri4 jiu3 jian4 ren2 xin1. 51109 Koeln Federal Republic of Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message