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Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 4:49 pm
by xenic
My X5000 boot time from the time the X5000 UBoot screen is displayed to Workbench screen open is 75 seconds. If I press the space bar as soon as the UBoot animation starts and start AmigaOS from the UBoot menus, the boot time is 45 to 50 seconds. Is there a way (like a UBoot setting) to automatically skip the UBoot animation?

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2017 11:29 pm
by tonyw
You can set the number of animation cycles with "amigabootmenu_animcycle", like so:

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amigabootmenu_animcycles = 1                 // limits it to a single cycle

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 10:56 am
by Roland
tonyw wrote:You can set the number of animation cycles with "amigabootmenu_animcycle", like so:

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amigabootmenu_animcycles = 1                 // limits it to a single cycle
Thanks Tony! A very wellcome trick, indeed...

If I remember correctly, this variable was not used in the default UBoot settings. Where could we found the complete list of possible X5000 UBoot variables? Some explanation how to use them would not do harm, either... Could it be included in AmiWiki?

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:21 pm
by tonyw
I don't have a full list myself, but I'll see if I can get one and add it to the Wiki.

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 6:26 pm
by xenic
tonyw wrote:You can set the number of animation cycles with "amigabootmenu_animcycle", like so:

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amigabootmenu_animcycles = 1                 // limits it to a single cycle
Thanks Tony. It works and noticably speeds up cold boot times.

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:47 am
by daveyw
I tried setting this uBoot variable and saveenv, but no change. :?: :?: :?:

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 6:38 am
by tommysammy
daveyw wrote:I tried setting this uBoot variable and saveenv, but no change. :?: :?: :?:
with me, nothing changes, i tried it several times

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 12:06 pm
by tonyw
daveyw wrote:I tried setting this uBoot variable and saveenv, but no change.
It only works on the latest version of the X-5000 U-Boot. If your U-Boot is older, you will have to get an updated U-Boot image and update it.

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 1:08 pm
by Spectre660
Make sure that you have the s at the end .
Should be
amigabootmenu_animcycles=1
and not
amigabootmenu_animcycle=1

Re: Skip UBoot animation?

Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2017 2:12 pm
by tommysammy
tonyw wrote:
daveyw wrote:I tried setting this uBoot variable and saveenv, but no change.
It only works on the latest version of the X-5000 U-Boot. If your U-Boot is older, you will have to get an updated U-Boot image and update it.
Where can we get it?