Can yaboot delay for kernel choice?

Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com
Mon May 25 00:47:20 EST 2009


On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/24 Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>   I'm trying to add a new kernel to my Mac Mini but when I boot
>> yaboot just jumps immediately to my old kernel immediately without
>> giving me a chance to select the new one. I have a couple of
>> delay/timeout things I got from a Gentoo page but they aren't working
>> or I don't know the trick to get them to work. If I change the default
>> line then the new kernel boots, but I'd like the choice at boot time.
>
> delay is for the first stage boot loader
>
> You want timeout which is in tenths of seconds eg:
>
> timeout=50
>
> Paul
>

Thanks!

Grub = seconds
yaboot = 1/10 seconds

Must remember that!

Cheers,
Mark



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