From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 20:55:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF17C16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:55:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4106843D31 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:55:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j0OKtMqx060238; Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:55:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 14:55:22 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: faisal gillani Message-ID: <20050124205521.GE33972@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050124195242.21866.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050124195242.21866.qmail@web51009.mail.yahoo.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: making freebsd boot faster ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:55:23 -0000 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