On Sun, August 30, 2020 7:12 am, Henry W. Peterson wrote: > If I write at the boot prompt "set timeout 5" and then "set tty pc0" it > waits indefinitely for new commands (as expected). > > I was asking if there is a way to start a new timeout or instantly boot > the kernel after the console switching without typing anything else (to > switch to com0, without actually connecting a serial console, let it boot > and then control the computer by ssh). >
Once you hit a key on the keyboard, you've stopped the timeout. If you're typing on the keyboard, you can just type "boot" (or just "b") to boot it. You don't need a timeout. If you put your com0 settings (or whatever else) into boot.conf, then you don't need to type anything and the timeout applies and it'll boot on its own.
