From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 17:23:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA08340 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:23:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08235 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 17:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA12234; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:22:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <199810070022.UAA12234@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mike Smith cc: Stefan Eggers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: Two /boot/loader anomalies References: <199810061949.MAA00863@dingo.cdrom.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 06 Oct 1998 12:49:40 PDT." <199810061949.MAA00863@dingo.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:22:10 -0400 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 > > > > > 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