From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 23 14:59:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891E815184 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:59:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: from smtp1.erols.com ([207.172.3.234]) by smtp01.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #3) id 11qOrs-0001w5-00 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:57:00 -0500 Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (216-164-168-22.s22.tnt1.xcb.nj.dialup.rcn.com [216.164.168.22]) by smtp1.erols.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02068 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:56:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <383B1BA1.D804596D@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:56:34 -0500 From: Jonathon McKitrick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot prompts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have seen two different boot prompts. One when the F1/F2 prompt is shown (DOS, FreeBSD) and then another if i hit a key while the countdown is going on. What is the difference between these two? I know they allow different kernels to be loaded and configurations, but which one does what? -jm please cc me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message