Patrick Welche writes:
> >From the init man page:
> 
>   The init program is the last stage of the boot process.  It normally
>   runs the automatic reboot sequence as described in reboot(8), and if
>   this succeeds, begins multi-user operation.  If the reboot scripts
>   fail, init commences single user operation by giving the super-user a
>   shell on the console.
> 
> What are the reboot scripts in the context of booting from floppy?

/etc/rc and friends.

>   The init program may be passed parameters from the boot program to
>   prevent the system from going multi-user and to instead execute a
>   single user shell without starting the normal daemons.
> 
> Is this what happens when booting from floppy? I definitely don't say
> boot fd0a:netbsd.gz -s
> !

No, it is not what is happening. The deal is that the boot floppy
doesn't have rc scripts that succeed in running.

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