on 1/20/00 10:41 AM, Anders Andersson at anders@sanyusan.se wrote:

> I made a new -CURRENT kernel and rebooted my -CURRENT box as of Jan 5th.
> It will boot fine with the new kernel but I cant login, neither with ssh
> or on the serial console. It doesnt even answer on ping.
> 
> How can I boot the netbsd.old kernel? This DECstation 5000/125 only got
> a serial console. I tried to press space during boot (as it works on
> i386) but that doesnt give me a "boot" prompt.

    If your quick enough, you might be able to stop it before it loads the
secondary booter. In your case, I think you can hit Control-Alt-Return to
dump you to the >> then type setenv haltaction h, then type rst and hit
return. Now you should be able to type boot 3/rzx/netbsd.old -s (for single
user)


    Chris