Subject: Re: Booting directly to multiuser/ PMAG AA
To: Matthew Schnierle <pyld@grove.iup.edu>
From: Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.ibp.fr>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/23/1997 10:25:32
On Jan 22, Matthew Schnierle wrote
> Two questions:
> 
> 1.  How does one make the pmax port boot directly from the prom right into
> multiuser with no breaks for input?  Specifically:
> 
> I've got a 5000/120 running the 1.2 binary distribution and a fairly generic
> kernel.  At the prom, I'm booting with 
> 
> >>boot 3/rz3/netbsd -a
> 
> However, while this does bypass single user mode, I'm still prompted for a
> root device.  I thought this was fixed in the kernel config--I think I'm
> either messing up the kernel config or completely missing the point WRT
> booting directly into multiuser (in either case, I'd love to hear from those
> of you who have this worked out and are willing to help a Netbsd newcomer).

You need to remplace the line 
config         gennetbsd       swap generic
with something like (change the devices name to match your config)
config          netbsd root on rz2a swap on rz2b dumps on rz2b

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Manuel Bouyer, MASI, Universite Paris VI.
email: bouyer@masi.ibp.fr
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