Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:22:10 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Stefan Eggers <seggers@semyam.dinoco.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies Message-ID: <199810070022.UAA12234@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:49:40 PDT." <199810061949.MAA00863@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199810061949.MAA00863@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > > 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 > > > > > You'll get this if the timer isn't working properly. I've seen a > > > couple of reports of this, but I haven't been able to reproduce it yet. > > > > Really strange. The call seems to be correct. :-( > > I'm working on it at the moment. It doesn't help that I don't know > what's wrong. 8( I may have to revert to using the RTC hardware. 8( Hmm.. I thought I was crazy as I've seen this too. On my P-133 system with an old AMI BIOS, I did get the countdown. I noticed yesterday that on my Dell Latitude laptop (with an Award BIOS, but I'm not sure and don't have it handy at the moment), I don't get the countdown, either. FYI, another data point. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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