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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Bypassing boot options screen in FreeBSD Date: 19 Jul 1994 03:42:13 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 22 Message-ID: <30fi2l$978@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <30eoi0$45k@venus.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <30eoi0$45k@venus.mcs.com>, Derek Pressnall <derekp@MCS.COM> wrote: >What is the easiest way of configuring FreeBSD so that it doesn't >prompt you for any options on bootup? I need to set up a server >that won't have a keyboard/monitor attached, so I need it to boot >up when the power is turned on without a user having to hit the >enter key. It will boot w/out the user having to hit the enter key after a short time-out period. However, if you don't want to give the user the option to change kernels (which could affect you if someone goes hog-wild with fdisk on the drive) you can modify the bootblocks and remove the timeout code in it. I did that in an X-terminal lab and it works quite well. (But I keep a floppy that I can boot off of just in case something gets really weirded out). Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.