vs3100m38 single user boot???.

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Mon Mar 10 06:37:01 2003

On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Fred deBros wrote:

> Can I boot Netbsd1.5 or 4.3bsd into single user from the vs3100 bios?
> Whats the cmd? Boot dka100/1
> Or set boot dka100 and then b/1?

>>> boot/1 dka100

or

>>> boot dka100 -s

on some systems.. the "-s" will be passed to the boot loader itself,
and, if it supports that, it will interpret it as "single mode mode".

The full command is:

>>> boot [/bootflags] device: [program] [options]

The bootflags are VMB-standard flags (for VMS), which may or may
not be supported by the OS. They are passed to the OS through
CPU register R5.

The "program" argument can be used to tell the boot loader to load
something other than the standard kernel - in case you just built
a non-working kernel, for example ;-)

(mental note: does this ever happen? _YES_!)

Cheers,
        Fred
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 06:37:01 GMT