From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 6 15:03:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17423 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:03:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gjp.erols.com (alex-va-n008c079.moon.jic.com [206.156.18.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17411 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:03:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) Received: from gjp.erols.com (gjp@localhost.erols.com [127.0.0.1]) by gjp.erols.com (8.9.1/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21770; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:03:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gjp@gjp.erols.com) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: "Justin M. Seger" cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Booting in single user mode In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:45:58 EST." <199811061445.JAA08862@freebsd.scds.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 18:03:21 -0500 Message-ID: <21767.910393401@gjp.erols.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Justin M. Seger" wrote in message ID <199811061445.JAA08862@freebsd.scds.com>: > 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? In the SRM, set boot_osflags to be `A' (without quotes). DGUX needed it, as did NetBSD, so I'm not qutie sure why you don't have that variable setup. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message