Skipping "F1 FreeBSD" prompt on boot

[Sam Lawrance]

On 13/05/2007, at 6:15 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

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> Sam Lawrance wrote:
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>> On 12/05/2007, at 8:59 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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>>> David Landgren wrote:
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>>>> I have a disk that has only FreeBSD on it, and so I would like  
>>>> to skip
>>>> the initial F1/FreeBSD prompt. boot0cfg -v ad0 says:
>>>>
>>>> options=nopacket,update,nosetdrv
>>>> default_selection=F1 (Slice 1)
>>>>
>>>> ... what do I have to do to say JFDI instead of prompting? This  
>>>> is not
>>>> the sort of thing I want to fiddle around experimenting, so a  
>>>> little
>>>> guidance would be most appreciated.
>>>
>>> fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr /dev/ad0
>>>
>>> You installed the FreeBSD boot sector stuff, which gives you the  
>>> 'press
>>> F1'  business.  Replace that with the standard mbr, which just boots
>>> straight up.
>>>
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>> Rather than replacing it, you can use boot0cfg to set a really short
>> timeout instead; in case you might want that functionality one day.
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> Heh.  It's not like you only get one chance to rewrite the boot blocks
> on any particular drive.  If anyone needs to (re-)install the  
> FreeBSD boot
> blocks, then you can do very simply it by:
>
>    boot0cfg -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0
>
> or even
>
>    fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0
>
> Or if you need to boot from a serial console you can change /boot/ 
> boot0
> to /boot/boot0sio

Sure, but why get rid of it, when leaving it in with a short timeout  
costs you nothing.