[Watford] Hi! Turn out tomorrow?

Steven Acreman sacreman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 3 14:51:12 BST 2007


Looking at your config I'd say just changing the timeout=50 to timeout=0
would be sufficient.

On 03/07/07, David Pead <davesignup at pead.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hey Steve,
>
> Thanks for the pointer. My current yaboot.conf file has no defaultos=
> line, so I guess I just add it? Question is where, or does it matter...
>
>
> yaboot.conf dump below:
>
>
> boot=/dev/hda2
> device=/pci at f2000000/mac-io at 17/ata-4 at 1f000/disk at 0:
> partition=3
> root=/dev/hda3
> timeout=50
> install=/usr/lib/yaboot/yaboot
> magicboot=/usr/lib/yaboot/ofboot
> enablecdboot
>
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux
>         label=Linux
>         read-only
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append="quiet splash"
>
>
> image=/boot/vmlinux.old
>         label=old
>         read-only
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img.old
>         append="quiet splash"
>
>
> See y'all later :D
>
>
> Dave
>
>  On 3 Jul 2007, at 09:09, Steven Acreman wrote:
>
>  Morning Gents,
>
> Looking forward to tonight. David, for yaboot you'll need to edit
> /etc/yaboot.conf and change the defaultos= line to the ubuntu option. Then
> set the timeout=0 to make it boot that immediately.
>
> After making the changes to the file run ybin to apply.
>
> See you all later,
>
> Steven
>
>
> On 03/07/07, Cliff Deamer <cliff.g3ndc at btinternet.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi again, my brain not in gear yet!! The meeting is today 3rd July.
> > Cliff
> >
> > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:40 +0100, David Pead wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My name's David. I'm pretty new to linux tho' am eager to learn. Am a
> > > Mac user usually but am rapidly gaining interest/knowledge in all
> > > things *nix and open-source, due to the underpinnings of OS X and my
> > > work (Digital Print). I intend to come along to the July meeting
> > > (tomorrow) and look forward to seeing some of you there?
> > >
> > > Have a bit of scripting/web-programming experience and a basic
> > > understanding of the CLI.
> > >
> > > My particular interests on the linux front is running a home server.
> > > LAMP and whatever else I can run for fun! Security is my biggest
> > > concern before I open it up to the big wide world. Currently locked
> > > down to LAN and only have my work IP range allowed through router
> > > firewall. Also am curious to try MythTV...  :D
> > >
> > > Have dabbled with Debian on an old-world (beige G3) Mac, but
> > > currently have Ubuntu on an unused G4 Mac from work under the stairs!
> > >
> > > My first question is... How can I get my Ubuntu Mac to boot straight
> > > into Linux without having to press enter in yaboot?
> > >
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