The following reply was made to PR install/30422; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/30422: sysinst overrides default boot countdown timeout on i386
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 09:14:56 +0100

 On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 05:16:01AM +0000, John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       sysinst overrides default boot countdown timeout on i386
 
 > The default bootblocks for i386 use, and have always used, a countdown
 > timeout of 5 seconds (see sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/boot_params.S, and
 > before that PROMPTWAIT in sys/arch/i386/boot/boot.c).
 > 
 > However, sysinst in NetBSD 2.0 and later uses custom code in
 > distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/i386/md.c:md_post_newfs() to install the
 > bootblocks, under the dubious comment of:
 > 	/* Copy bootstrap in by hand - /sbin/installboot explodes ramdisks */
 
 I'm fairly sure that I copied the default used by the previous version
 of sysinst....
 
 In any case just hit <enter> to kill the timeout.
 
 	David
 
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 David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk