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authorMartin Reindl <martin@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-11-12 18:39:20 +0000
committerMartin Reindl <martin@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-11-12 18:39:20 +0000
commit265ec8d34b3a61fe815e02324837e9a4111303a6 (patch)
tree1737ac833809846546df3e9014026c6afb4b1b8f /distrib/notes/alpha
parentef16f722865afe110205987278d67af2ec273dee (diff)
no longer require boot_osflags being set to 'a' in the SRM for going multiuser; setting boot_osflags to 's' explicitly will get us to singleuser as usual; very old SRM versions can only set 'a' or 's', but are still fine because we ignore 'a' now and default to multiuser
idea and ok deraadt@, jsg@, testing by many final ok miod@
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diff --git a/distrib/notes/alpha/prep b/distrib/notes/alpha/prep
index 0cabd7a819c..af0f7ea5d4f 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/alpha/prep
+++ b/distrib/notes/alpha/prep
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.23 2005/03/18 13:31:13 miod Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.24 2005/11/12 18:39:19 martin Exp $
OpenBSD/MACHINE requires the SRM console. Some alphas come with
the AlphaBIOS (also known as the ARC firmware on older machines) instead;
this is what Windows NT uses. It is fairly simple to replace the AlphaBIOS
@@ -59,16 +59,14 @@ Using the SRM console:
console, in which case you need to always specify a
kernel filename if it differs from "bsd".
boot_osflags Flags to pass to the kernel.
- IMPORTANT! For multiuser boot, this needs to be
- set to "a".
To see a list of all variables on your machine, use the "show"
command with no arguments.
You can bypass the boot_file and boot_osflags values from the command
prompt, with the -fi (to override boot_file) and -fl (to override
boot_osflags) options. For example,
- boot -fi bsd -fl ac dka0
- will boot the "bsd" kernel with the "ac" flags on dka0. However, some
+ boot -fi bsd -fl c dka0
+ will boot the "bsd" kernel with the "c" flag on dka0. However, some
versions of the SRM console (mainly on DEC 3000 series) will only let
you specify uppercase filenames.