Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 23:30:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2 Message-ID: <20110221053044.GM66849@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20110219121242.GA55551@freebsd.org> References: <20110219024726.GA3909@freebsd.org> <4D5FB2C7.7060200@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20110219121242.GA55551@freebsd.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 19), Alexander Best said: > On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: > > > but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: > > > btx halted or something like that. > > > > Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should > > allow you to repair the boot blocks and make your system bootable again. > > sorry if i wasn't clear enough. my system works perfectly normal. all i > want is to avoid running through the booting stage 3 (i.e. running > /boot/loader), because i want to speed up the boot time. I don't think that's been possible for a long time. /boot/loader shouldn't add more than a fraction of a second if you set its timeout to 0. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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