Re: Some extra info for http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Multibooting

Great info.  I hope someone picks it up for the FAQ.

Austin


On Tue, 14 Feb 2012, Rod Whitworth wrote:

> Specifically for the Win7 part.
>
> The Vista section (I've never used Vista and I've never been close
> enough to read the screen on a vbox) mentions needing admin privs to do
> some of the process.
>
> Win7 section doesn't say so and could be problematic for someone who
> will discover it when trying to do it.
>
> Furthermore just being an admin doesn't cut it. I found that out ages
> ago and re-learned it today 8-)
>
> It would be nice to tell people that they need to select the command
> prompt in the program list and right click to choose "Run as
> administrator" to get a window that will allow one to run the lines
> found in the FAQ.
>
> Having done it all before, but way back when 7 was new, I printed out
> the section and put it on my test bench with a new Lenovo 320.
>
> When I was done I rebooted and didn't get a chance to select my OpenBSD
> 5.1 beta. I rebooted a few times before I spotted it for a milisecond
> and blamed the Lenovo fast start deal. So I played with that but to no
> avail.
>
> Finally I found out that bcdedit with no commands prints out the state
> of play and sure enough timeout was set to 0.
>
> We just need one more command in the FAQ:
>
> C:\Windows\system32> bcdedit /timeout 30
>
> and people can vary that to suit themselves but 30 seconds was the
> default (IIRC) in XP.
>
> Maybe this will aid some newbies and keep 'em from crying on misc@
> 8-))
>
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