Re: NetBSD 9.3 Alpha Boot stops

[dnovak1 <dnovak1%gmail.com@localhost>]

Istvan,

In my setup boot_osflags = 0,0

And "boot -flag A dqa0" booted right up!  No stopping!

In SRM I then "set boot_osflags = A" and then "boot dqa0" and it
booted right up!

So that was the issue, boot flags.  Who knew?  I do still have a drive
with OpenVMS on it that I can boot from.  I guess I just have to
remember to use "boot -flag 0,0 <OpenVMS-drive>" when I want to use
that, or change the boot_osflags.  But I don't really want to boot
OpenVMS anymore...

  Thank you!

  David

On Mon, Sep 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM Istvan Gyenes <igyenes%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Hello David,
>
> Try to boot with "boot -fl a dka0" (replace dka0 with your boot device name)
>
> There is a boot_osflags env var that drives the firmware to  boot into multi/single user.
> You can check it with "show boot_osflags" in SRM.
> You can set the env var with "set boot_osflags A" to boot to defult multi-user if I remember correctly.
>
> Br,
> --
> istvan
>
>