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At the ok prompt, type "unsetenv floppy-boot?". I believe that should fix
it.

/Brian/

> One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by
> CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I
> have to hit 1 to continue the boot.
>
> How can I disable this?
>
> Cheers,
> CM
>
>

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> One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by
> CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I
> have to hit 1 to continue the boot.
>
> How can I disable this?

Shut down to the OK prompt and type this

printenv floppy-boot?

If it is set to "true", then that is your problem.
Set it to false like this:

setenv floppy-boot? false

I'm pretty sure that the name has a ? at the end. If not, then
try "floppy-boot".





Steve Losen scl@virginia.edu phone: 434-924-0640

University of Virginia ITC Unix Support

scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu (Steve Losen) writes:
>
> > One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by
> > CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I
> > have to hit 1 to continue the boot.
> >
> > How can I disable this?
>
> Shut down to the OK prompt and type this
>
> printenv floppy-boot?
>
> If it is set to "true", then that is your problem.
> Set it to false like this:
>
> setenv floppy-boot? false

This reminds me to ask a question that's been at the back of my mind for
a while: is there any way of interrogating the filer boot prom settings
*without* shutting down first? I am thinking of something like the
eeprom(1m) command in Solaris, which can be used while the system is
running.

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

Great minds think alike ;). This is an RFE internally 75510
for reading and writing OBP vars from the running OS.
I've added your comments to the bug to add some momentum
to it.

Regards,

Mike Kiernan

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Thompson [mailto:cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 9:23 PM
To: scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu
Cc: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: disable boot menu


scl@sasha.acc.virginia.edu (Steve Losen) writes:
>
> > One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by
> > CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I
> > have to hit 1 to continue the boot.
> >
> > How can I disable this?
>
> Shut down to the OK prompt and type this
>
> printenv floppy-boot?
>
> If it is set to "true", then that is your problem.
> Set it to false like this:
>
> setenv floppy-boot? false

This reminds me to ask a question that's been at the back of my mind for
a while: is there any way of interrogating the filer boot prom settings
*without* shutting down first? I am thinking of something like the
eeprom(1m) command in Solaris, which can be used while the system is
running.

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk

Thanks for all the (very speedy) replies. That certainly did the trick.
I'll summarize here just in case anybody missed it!

At the 'ok' prompt, unset the following:
ok unsetenv floppy-boot?
Alternatively,
ok setenv floppy-boot? false

Cheers,
CM

On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:36:51AM +1000, Chris Miles wrote:
> One of my F760s pauses at the boot menu (1-5 prompt, usually accessed by
> CTRL-C I believe) every time it reboots, which is rather annoying as I
> have to hit 1 to continue the boot.
>
> How can I disable this?

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