How to decrease the loader wait-time?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon May 24 07:55:12 PDT 2004


In the last episode (May 24), Andreas Davour said:
> I've been staring at the beastie during startup quite a bit now. Even
> though he is a handsome chap to stare at, I still think 10 seconds
> each boot is a bit to much.
> 
> Can someone tell me how I configure the loader to decrease the time
> delay? I kind of figured it would be found in the Handbook, I haven't
> found it. Pointers welcome.

/boot/loder.conf:
beastie_disable="YES"
autoboot_delay="2"

works for me.  The variables are defined in the loader manpage (not
loader.conf, which only describes the syntax).

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list