Reduce 10 sec delay of loader?

[Andreas Ott]

Hi,
On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 07:16:03PM -0300, Mat?as Perret Cantoni wrote:
> Hi! I'm trying to avoid the 10 sec wait on boot time:
> 
> /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x4b3fc8+0x2c038 syms=[0x4+0x78c40+0x4+0x4b17f]
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel] in 9 seconds ...
> ...
> 
> I created the file /boot/loader.conf (since there wasn't one on my
> system) to override the loader_delay and autoboot_delay variables
> defined in /boot/defaults/loader.conf :
> 
> # cat /boot/loader.conf
> loader_delay="1"
> autoboot_delay="1"
> 
> But loader still waits 10 seconds before booting.
> 
> I read the loader.conf(5) and loader(8) manuals, but I can't see what
> I'm doing wrong. Can you point me some directions?
> 
> I'm running 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD on the ZedBoard.

from /etc/boot/menu.rc.sample

\ Enable automatic booting (add ``autoboot_delay=N'' to loader.conf(5) to
\ customize the timeout; default is 10-seconds)

I don't know if the parser will choke on the double quotes, try leaving
them out like autoboot_delay=1 .

-andreas