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From: barrett@lucy.ee.und.ac.za (Alan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Please Make the Boot Manager Go AWAY (repost)
Date: 18 May 1993 09:25:48 +0200
Organization: Elec. Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <1t98hn$68c@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth) writes:
> Seriously, there must be someone reading this that knows how to make the
> @#$% boot partition/kernel selector that gets installed with NetBSD GO AWAY.
> If this is a RTFM question, please tell me WITFM?  I want this damn beast
> to boot wd(0,a)/386bsd forever and ever and I never want it to ask me
> again.  How else can one reboot the machine remotely?

I don't understand why you can't just hit ENTER if you are physically
present when it boots, or wait for it to time out if you are not
physically present.  What's the real problem?

--apb (Alan Barrett)