From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 12:01:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19553 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:01:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dns.webwizard.net.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19486 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Received: from webwizard.org.mx (dns.webwizard.com.mx [148.245.50.27]) by dns.webwizard.net.mx (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02297; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:54:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from eculp@webwizard.org.mx) Message-ID: <361A676C.81E753CF@webwizard.org.mx> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:54:36 -0500 From: Edwin Culp X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Viren R. Shah" CC: Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot loader problems.. References: <199810061207.IAA24122@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> <199810061519.IAA03387@dingo.cdrom.com> <199810061735.NAA00682@jabberwock.rstcorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It scared the s*&! out of me this morning when I rebuilt sys/boot and rebooted. It came up all by itself, with just two 's:-) I was sure I had done something wrong. Took all the fun out of booting elf:-) Thanks a lot. It's a giant step forward. ed "Viren R. Shah" wrote: > >>>>> "Mike" == Mike Smith writes: > > >> If you need testers, I'm willing. > > Mike> We committed a fix last night; I'd be happy to hear whether it's > Mike> working for you now. > > The new boot loader works now. It remembers the currect > device. Thanks. > > Question: when I first booted, it just sat there at the > > Hit [enter] to boot immediately or .... > > prompt. > > At this point my /boot/boot.conf file was empty. > > I had to put a "boot /kernel.aout" into the /boot/boot.conf file. My > boot.conf file now is: > > set autoboot=5 > boot /kernel.aout > > Now it boots immediately without waiting the 5 seconds. Without the > "boot /kernel.aout" line, it just sits at the "Hit [enter]..." > prompt. > > Is there an intermediate solution where it will wait 5 seconds before > autobooting kernel.aout? > > Viren > -- > Viren R. Shah | "Are those numbers measured values, > viren@rstcorp.com | or are you engaging in proctonumerology?" > http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah/ | -- Bill Garrett in raswrj > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message