Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 09:35:37 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing from 6.0 to 6.1 ->"'.' to end pause mode" Message-ID: <44bqu29hee.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4464973A.2020102@thingy.com> (Howard Jones's message of "Fri, 12 May 2006 15:10:02 %2B0100") References: <4464973A.2020102@thingy.com>
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Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> writes: > I've been experimenting with PXE-driven installations in preparation for > the arrival of a pile of new servers, and I had a mostly-working setup > for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE when 6.1 was announced this week. > > I've upgraded to 6.1 on my build system, and have it serving install > data and an mfsroot with my own install.cfg in it. It all works fine > except that after the target system reboots, and apparently every time > it boots, I get this: > "<pause; press any key to proceed to next line or '.' to end pause mode>" > and have to press . to start the boot process proper. > > Has something changed in the console? The same system was fine with > 6.0-RELEASE. One other possibly relevant thing is that my install script > does set /boot.config to contain '-p'. Has something happened with > keyboard detection that would make the pause mode come on? It seems that > this pause mode has been in the console code for a while, although I > didn't know about it until now. I thought that's what "-p" was supposed to mean in the boot flags...
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