Subject: Re: Booting in single-user mode
To: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/06/1996 13:37:56
> 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?

The convention on recent DEC systems (at least Alphas and PMAXen, and
maybe even VAXen) is that you need to give the "A" boot flag to boot
multi-user.  ("Autoboot" i guess.)




chris