From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 6 07:41:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12989 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:41:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12974 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 07:41:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA15633; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:40:59 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA17460; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:40:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:40:53 -0500 (EST) To: "Justin M. Seger" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting in single user mode In-Reply-To: <199811061445.JAA08862@freebsd.scds.com> References: <199811061445.JAA08862@freebsd.scds.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13891.6088.957405.907290@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Justin M. Seger writes: > Are we still booting into single user mode by default, or is something wrong on > my system? I'm running from a world built yesterday on an AlphaStation 200 > with a serial console. Whenever it boots, I'm left at a choose a shell prompt, > then I have to log in and type sh /etc/rc > > Am I missing something obvious? Set the SRM console variable boot_osflags to A. The alpha gets at least some of its boot flags via the prom & not the bootloader.. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message