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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:55:22 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        faisal gillani <fasi_74@yahoo.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: making freebsd boot faster ...
Message-ID:  <20050124205521.GE33972@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050124195242.21866.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20050124195242.21866.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 24), faisal gillani said:
> i want my freebsd 5.3 to boot faster 
> there are almost 15 sec my box is taking longer , 5
> sec in the boot manager screen & 10 sec more in the
> welcome & boot options screen ..

To lower the timeout to 1 second in the bootblock menu, run:

	boot0cfg -t 18

The units are BIOS clock ticks, which are about 18.2 per second.  To
lower the timeout in /boot/loader to 1 second, edit boot/loader.conf
and add

	autoboot_delay="1"

More info is in the boot0cfg and loader manpages.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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