David Laight wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 01:41:31PM +0100, Adrian Portelli wrote:
>> I thought of maybe increasing the timer to 30 seconds or 60 seconds using:
>>
>> installboot -v -o timeout=60 /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
> 
> That works when I do it...  But I think I have a much bigger number.
> With a few round tuits I might even try to change the way the delay is done.
> 
>> to see if that can give me some chance to interrupt it, but when I do
>> that I get "Boot failed (errno  2): Can't open /boot." on reboot.
> 
> Are you sure you didn't install with ffsv2 ?
> 
> 	David
> 

Hi,

All working now, thanks.  I re-installed NetBSD on the CF card and then
ran installboot with timeout=100 and that gives me more than enough time
to interrupt the boot process if I need to.

Not sure how I managed to stuff up the boot loader in the first place
but I was trying installboot with a few different parameters so I
probably just got carried away with one of them :)

regards,

adrian.