At 08:51 PM 4/20/00 , you wrote:
>So I updated to the latest -current sources via CVS, built the world
>(netbooted), then applied the resultant boot and xxboot files to my
>vs4000/60, and BAM the rom(0,0,0)netbsd boot trick suddenly works!
>WooHoo! I've finally gotten my fastest vax to boot by itself!

boot (and just boot)

works just fine and will allow you to go into single user mode.

>I'm exstatic. However, there are two pitfalls - the countdown still
>doesn't advance (big deal, wouldn't boot anyway, must specify rom()),
>and it boots into single-user mode. If I 'exit' the shell, it then goes
>on to do multi-user just fine. rc.conf is configured.

You don't have to specify rom() anymore.  sd() will work and will get
you into multiuser.


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