From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 31 10:36:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from castle.netlink.co.uk (castle.netlink.co.uk [194.88.140.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A28814E21 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 10:36:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geoffb@castle.netlink.co.uk) Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by castle.netlink.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA05746; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:07 +0100 (BST) From: Geoff Buckingham Message-Id: <199908311800.TAA05746@castle.netlink.co.uk> Subject: Re: Refusal to boot multi user In-Reply-To: from Matthew Jacob at "Aug 31, 99 10:32:54 am" To: mjacob@feral.com Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:00:07 +0100 (BST) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Hi Geoff... hope your new jobs/life is going well... > > you need to set a prom variable to go to multiuser as a default. > > set bootdef_flags a > That worked thanks. > > is what it is, I believe... > > > On Tue, 31 Aug 1999, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > > My alpha current of about 6-7 weeks ago refuses to boot multi user unaided > > > > It simply drops into single user mode without repoering any errors ctrl D > > takes it multi user without any errors, I would be gratfull for any ideas. > > > > -- > > GeoffB > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message