On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 09:09:54AM +0000, John Long wrote:
> I haven't been able to figure out how to setup an entry in pmon's boot.cfg
> to boot OpenBSD in single user mode. I know on other platforms boot -s from
> the OpenBSD boot prompt works correctly.
>
> I've tried all sorts of stuff with the args parameter, no joy. Can anyone
> clue me in? Thank you.
The boot menu is such a POS that i just don't use it. The alternative
method: directly booting from PMON is better (though still buggy
because of PMON), and gives you a chance to interact with the boot>
prompt.
If you have "al" set like descibed in the INSTALL notes and if you
have the "bsd" var set to /bsd, it will boot the kernel without a
chance to interact with the boot> prompt.
But if you unset "bsd", the boot loader will show its prompt, but
only if you first pressed Del to get the PMON prompt and booted the
kernel by the command given in the INSTALL notes.
If not, you'll have to type boot> commands (like "-s<Return>")
blindly, but they do work.
Note that all this is because of PMON bugs, we did our best to
circumvent the bugs, but this is the best we can do.
-Otto
