Subject: RE: Building X
To: 'Brian Hechinger' , Lars <cryptr@cryptr.net>
From: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/20/2001 10:31:06
Brian ---
	IIRC, on Vax, you have to change the HALT option. And on the Multia,
it's auto_action. In other words, type 'sho' and look at all the variables
it lists. One of them will do it for ya! :-)

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Brian Hechinger [mailto:wonko@arkham.ws]
! Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:22 AM
! To: Lars
! Cc: linc; port-alpha@netbsd.org
! Subject: Re: Building X
! 
! 
! On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 02:36:33PM +0200, Lars wrote:
! > 
! > set boot_osflags A ?
! 
! speaking of which.  i've got a DEC 3000/300LX running NetBSD, 
! and it refuses to
! boot at powerup.  when i power it on, it goes to the chevron 
! (i heard someone
! call that the dead sargent prompt, i like that better *G*) 
! prompt and waits
! for me to type boot.  i don't need to tell it anything else, 
! it knows where to
! boot from since BOOT is set, it knows to go into auto since 
! BOOT_OSFLAGS is A,
! but it won't do jack until i type boot.  how do i get this 
! thing to just boot
! at powerup like every other machine i have does?  even the 
! VAXen and DECstations
! know how to do it!! :)
! 
! -brian
!