I set the enviroment variable as specified and got the following results:

"/etc/rc.conf is not configured. Multiuser boot aborted.
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:"

If I hit return I get the same message as before about creating a non-root
account.  I presume this means I need to edit my rc.conf file.  However none
of the commands work.  I can't use vi to edit the file, I cannot even access
the man pages.  It simply returns command not found.

Very confused,
Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com]
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 8:27 PM
To: Robert Manna
Cc: port-alpha@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: boot problem


On July 27, Robert Manna wrote:
> I have installed netBSD on my Alphastation 200 4/166.  However under the
srm
> console when I do a boot command to the hardrive where I installed BSD to
I
> get the following message.
>
>
> "Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:"
>
> If I hit return I get the next message.
>
> "We recommend creating a non root account and using su(1) for root
access."
>
> Followed by a command prompt denoted by the # sign.  I suspect that the
> problem is in my boot command, do I need to attach some other flags to it?
> Can anybody help me out.  I realize that this is probably a simple
problem,
> but I'm only a beginner.

  Your system is booting up into single-user mode...sounds like your
"boot_osflags" environment variable (in the machine's SRM monitor) is
set incorrectly.  You should be able to fix this problem quickly and
easily this way:

  Halt the machine to get to a ">>>" prompt...this is the SRM prompt.
Do this:

>>> setenv boot_osflags a

  Then upon resetting the machine (you can type "init" at the SRM prompt
to reset the machine) it should come up in multi-user mode.

       Good luck,
        -Dave

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