From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 6 23:54:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06644 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:54:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles131.castles.com [208.214.165.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06639 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:54:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00484; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:53:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811070753.XAA00484@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson cc: Mike Smith , Andrew Gallatin , "Justin M. Seger" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting in single user mode In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:08:17 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 23:53:36 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > The alpha gets at least some of its boot flags via the prom & not the > > > bootloader.. > > > > This is only applicable if you are using the NetBSD bootstrap. The > > FreeBSD bootstrap defaults to autoboot, and largely ignores the flags > > passed in from the prom. The kernel always takes its flags from the > > bootloader; the NetBSD bootloader is the culprit here. > > Are you sure? I think that we still use the prom flags in the alpha > loader (they still work anyway - I used them this morning). You'd know 8). I recall a discussion where we decided that we'd autoboot by default, so perhaps it's just that 'a' is implicit and 's' will cause single-user mode? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message