On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:40:59PM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> OK, it's been a real long time since I've had to boot my Alpha, and I've
> forgotten the magic incantations!
> 
> It's a PC164 box.  When I boot, it immediately starts running the
> loader, with the spinning \-/| stuff.  It never gives me a five-second
> countdown during which it could be interrupted.
> 
> Of course, I've got my boot flags set to A (I think that's what it is),
> but I don't remember how that got set or what it should be set to to
> enable me to boot single-user.

"boot -flag s" from the SRM console is the way to boot single user for
Tru64, and I'm fairly sure it works for NetBSD too.

G.
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