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Date:      Fri, 4 Jan 2002 01:55:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: boot1
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.30.0201040154260.58895-100000@niwun.pair.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.020103224729.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, John Baldwin wrote:

> Errr, why do you have to hit enter?  If this patch does what I think it does,
> you won't even get a boot: prompt at all, it will just jump straight into the
> loader (or kernel).  Besides, it wouldn't be on by default.  You would have to
> explicitly turn it on via a flag in /boot.config.
>
> --
>
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/

One of my machines used to pause until I hit enter every time too.  Then
the motherboard went wacky and I replaced it.  With the new motherboard,
it auto-boots correctly every time.

Just FWIW,

Mike "Silby" Silbersack


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