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From: macleod@cmllab.rgb.sub.org (Connor MacLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Autoboot on Xenix
Keywords: Autoboot Xenix
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.005151.2635@cmllab.rgb.sub.org>
Date: 9 Apr 91 00:51:51 GMT
References: <19621128@thinc.COM>
Organization: The Connor MacLeod Laboratories, Regensburg, West-Germany
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In article <19621128@thinc.COM>
ethan@thinc.COM (Ethan.Lish@THINC.COM) wrote:

| Greetings -

Re... :)

| 		I am interested in haveing a SCO Xenix 286 System be
| 	self-rebootable, such that in the event of a system crash ;-(

I think the only thing you have to do is adding the following entry to
/etc/default/boot:

	TIMEOUT=120
	        ^^^
	         |
	         +---- number of seconds to wait at each prompt

This is enough for self-rebooting after a "sync; reboot" or a power
fail. You may decide to change the PANICBOOT from NO to YES but I
think you'll loose some interesting messages on the system console
when the system comes up again.

| PS I would also like to know the options to mknod for createing /dev/scratch

Hm... I think that's not necessary to create /dev/scratch. As far as I
remember the system uses /dev/swap (or something else :>) when auto-booting.
(BTW I'm running SCO Unix and I think the major/minor device numbers are
 _not_ the same for SCO Xenix... sorry)

Rgds

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