give it a control-c during bootup, right before you see the 'automatic 
boot in progress' message. if you miss it, just try it again :) 

on the pmaxen, if you didnt have the automatic boot set in the console, it
would halt at the single-user shell and only continue booting when that 
shell exited.. on the vax, i dont remember or know how to get the same 
effect.. i just ^c'ed at the right moment :) 

isildur

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Chuck McManis wrote:

> Well, I'll have to tell Kees that without pins 8 & 9 tied together the 8 
> pin port is _not_ the console, even with the VS/MV jumper in the MV position.
> 
> With it in place I got the expected banner and the comments about things 
> that didn't work.
> 
> After I got the chevron prompt I tried 'b dua0' and it is slowly (and very 
> loudly) booting Ultrix 3.1 from the RD54!
> 
> Does anyone know how to boot this thing single user? Its stuck waiting for 
> YP bind to respond.
> 
> --Chuck
> 
>