Subject: Re: install/30422: sysinst overrides default boot countdown timeout on i386
To: None <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/04/2005 09:14:56
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:16:01AM +0000, John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu wrote:
> >Synopsis:       sysinst overrides default boot countdown timeout on i386

> The default bootblocks for i386 use, and have always used, a countdown
> timeout of 5 seconds (see sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/boot_params.S, and
> before that PROMPTWAIT in sys/arch/i386/boot/boot.c).
> 
> However, sysinst in NetBSD 2.0 and later uses custom code in
> distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/i386/md.c:md_post_newfs() to install the
> bootblocks, under the dubious comment of:
> 	/* Copy bootstrap in by hand - /sbin/installboot explodes ramdisks */

I'm fairly sure that I copied the default used by the previous version
of sysinst....

In any case just hit <enter> to kill the timeout.

	David

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