On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Michael Sokolov wrote:
> As far as I remember, this is a problem with the booter, not the kernel. You
> need to type "rom()netbsd" at the booter's prompt. Oh, and bit 0 in your
> bootflags must be set, or you won't get that prompt at all.

Being a lazy sod, I recompiled the boot program to have this as the
default.  Now all I need to do is turn on my VAX and a couple of hours
later it's autobooted (well, perhaps not hours, but it seems like that
long to pass the selftests!)

Chris.