On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 08:42:15AM +0100, Pavel Cahyna wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've build a 1.6_STABLE snapshot, from yesterday sources.
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/snapshot/20021121-1.6_STABLE/
> > 
> > It has been cross-built from a sparc64 host. I just booted the install
> > kernel to check that the toolchain wasn't completely braindead, but
> > I didn't do any more tests.
> 
> Thank you very much! I've installed it yesterday on an AlphaPC 164LX.
> I have a problem with init: it is always called with  an argument -s,
> causing it to drop in the root shell immediately after boot. I boot
> simply by typing boot dka200 , and in the SRM console the variables
> booted_flags etc. are not set. Does please anybody know where the -s
> flag is coming from?

http://www.fr.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#multiuser-boot
You need to set the boot flags to 'a'

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