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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 17:54:16 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Dayman Cash <daymanc@clickarray.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: autoloading the default
Message-ID:  <20010315175416.A23726@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <MOEOJOONIHJLMKCDLDDJKEMBCAAA.daymanc@clickarray.com>; from "Dayman Cash" on Thu Mar 15 15:49:30 GMT 2001
References:  <MOEOJOONIHJLMKCDLDDJKEMBCAAA.daymanc@clickarray.com>

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In the last episode (Mar 15), Dayman Cash said:
> Free BSD is the only OS running on my system.
> 
> Q: How can i make BSD automatically load with out timing out (ie.
> auto input or timout reduction) on the prompt below:
> 
> F1 FreeBSD
> 
> Default: F1

"fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr" will install a minimal MBR that always boots
the active partition (just like the old MS-DOS MBR).

If you want to keep the menu, but shorten the timeout, see the boot0cfg
manpage.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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