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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q: How to automatically boot from chosen kernel?
Date: 21 Oct 1995 00:57:44 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <469gi8$fce@helena.MT.net>
References: <DGp99H.587@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <DGp99H.587@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Carsten Whimster <bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>When my machine boots, I have to press Enter to boot the most recently
>booted kernel. I would like to be able to skip this step. How do I
>make it boot automatically?

Wait longer.  It has timeout code which kicks in and boots the default
kernel after a specified period of time.  Patience...


Nate
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