The following reply was made to PR install/30422; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/30422: sysinst overrides default boot countdown timeout
 on i386
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 18:15:33 -0400

 David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
 > 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.
 
 I think that we should change the default to 5, as suggested by the
 bug submitter. "Least surprise."
 
 Perry