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From: "Kenyon Ralph" <kralph@gmail.com>
To: "Joseph Vella" <satyam@sklinks.com>
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Subject: Re: change 2nd boot menu
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On 3/21/06, Joseph Vella <satyam@sklinks.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to eliminate the FreesBSD menu and move those options to t=
he
> grub menu?  (actually I only want a couple of those options, like safe mo=
de,
> single user mode and the loader prompt or maybe just the option to boot i=
nto
> my previously compiled kernel)
>
> Is there a way to have that menu shoot by unless I press a key?
>
> At the very least how might I reduce the pause time?

Look for autoboot_delay in loader(8).  It sounds like you would put
something like
  set autoboot_delay=3D"NO"
or whatever value in seconds in /boot/loader.rc.