Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.5_BETA single user mode?
To: Michael J. Way <mway@mail.arc.nasa.gov>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/16/2000 18:54:00
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Michael J. Way wrote:
> i have a dec alpha 3000/400 running NetBSD-1.5_BETA (not BETA2).
> when the machine boots it halts at single user mode

> i can enter this way and when typing exit at the shell prompt
> it goes into multi-user mode. i've looked in the netbsd docs and
> i've done everything it says to avoid this, but alas i still
> cannot get past single user mode on boot up. how to i disable
> this "feature"?  any ideas appreciated. i haven't run netbsd
> since 1.1Beta on a microvax II some years back :-)

You've done the stuff mentioned at
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/faq.html#multiuser-boot ? The "set
boot_osflags a" should do the trick; if it doesn't, I don't know what else
to try.
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