From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <68401.1555714060.1@orthanc.ca> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 15:47:40 -0700 Message-Id: Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] The lost (9front) boot menus ... Topicbox-Message-UUID: fc0ec4bc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 cinap_lenrek@felloff.net writes: > the bootloader has a console where you can change any > plan9.ini parameter, including bootfile=. read 9boot(8). I described this badly. Let me try again. Given a working fileserver config, I want something that does 'user=foo; nobootpromt=bar', but with a (say) five second timeout. This is different from the current scheme that provides an escape, but which requires manual intervention. What I'm looking for is a timed-out option from the 'nobootprompt=' config, that lets me override, but only if I'm right there. It's the same as how (e.g. FreeBSD) lets you interrupt the boot process and muck about. But if you don't, it times out and boots the 'default' configuration.