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From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: Booting in single user mode
Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, "Justin M.Seger" <jseger@freebsd.scds.com>,
        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Mike Smith, On 06-Nov-98 you wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 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..
>  
>  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.

As I said in the other post, my experience contradicts you Mike.
but that was at 0200 last night, so anything is possible.

Simon


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