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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: "Justin M. Seger" <jseger@freebsd.scds.com>
Subject: RE: Booting in single user mode
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Justin M. Seger, On 06-Nov-98 you wrote:
>  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?

I have somewhat of the reverse problem.  It always boot in MU mode.

I do (from the SRM)

>>> boot -flags s dkc0

And then from the loader:

disk0> boot /boot/kernel.NICKEL

and end up in single user as expected.

However, if I do:

>>> boot dkc0
...
disk0> boot /boot/kernel.NICKEL -s

and end up in MU.


Oh, on the subject of booting:

It also appears as if when there is a /kernel.GENERIC, and a
/boot/kernel.GENERIC, what actually boots is /kernel.  Sounds strange...

Simon


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