Subject: Re: Booting in single-user mode
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Eric Sentner <sentner@noc.digex.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/06/1996 08:39:13
References: <Pine.NEB.3.93.961105153810.5126R-100000@cynic.portal.ca>

Yes, you need to use the '-a' flag to boot multi user.  I think the
newer versions of the kernel have this compiled in, but I might be
mistaken. :)

-- Eric

On November 5, Curt Sampson wrote:

> 
> Oh, and sorry to be a pest, but there's one more thing. My Multia
> insists on booting up in single-user mode. I've checked the SRM
> environment variables, and there are no flags set. When the NetBSD
> bootstrap starts, it says that it's pasing "" as the flags. Yet
> init seems to decide that it's got a `-s' flag and goes single-user.
> Has anyone any idea what's causing this?
> 
> cjs
> 
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