making freebsd boot faster ...

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jan 24), faisal gillani said:
> i want my freebsd 5.3 to boot faster 
> there are almost 15 sec my box is taking longer , 5
> sec in the boot manager screen & 10 sec more in the
> welcome & boot options screen ..

To lower the timeout to 1 second in the bootblock menu, run:

	boot0cfg -t 18

The units are BIOS clock ticks, which are about 18.2 per second.  To
lower the timeout in /boot/loader to 1 second, edit boot/loader.conf
and add

	autoboot_delay="1"

More info is in the boot0cfg and loader manpages.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com