Subject: Re: boot disk
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/13/1997 09:43:48
> If you use a ramdisk root, single user mode is forced by the
> mountroot_hook (i386/md_root.c) iirc.
> If I see it, you have no chance to get an automatically booting
> system with -current: With fd root, the floppy will prompt you to
> insert the file system floppy, and with md root you are forced to
> single user mode.
Of course, it's a trivial tweak to init to make it ignore -s. Or to
the kernel, to suppress the forcing of RB_SINGLE for memdisk root, for
that matter - the latter probably better, since it means you can supply
-s by hand when you really _do_ want single-user.
Of course, it means a custom kernel, but this sounds like a kinda
custom setup anyway. :-)
der Mouse
mouse@rodents.montreal.qc.ca
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