Brian Hechinger wrote:

> Paul Mather & Matt Thomas both said:
> 
> > It sounds like your BOOT_OSFLAGS PROM environment variable is set to "S"
> > (single user boot).  Set it to "A" and "boot" will boot multi-user.
> > Alternatively, you can "boot -fl a" to force a multi-user boot.
> 
> hammer hits nail squarly on head.  is this a DEC thing?  the sun machine just
> came up without telling it anything, but the pmaxes need -a and these things
> need -a or the SRM variable set.

Traditionally, NetBSD follows what other OSs on the host hardware did.
In DEC's case you need a flag to singify multi-user, but there's a
handful of pmaxs (at least 5100 and 5500) that default to multi-user and
use "-s" for single-user.  Go figure :-)

Simon.
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