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I am trying to boot the system in silent mode by setting the AB_SILENT flag in the boothowto variable.
I'm new to the NetBSD kernel - can anyone throw some light on how to proceed?
Arvin
Posted 2011-07-26T11:22:01.977
Reputation: 1
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How have you done that? Have you modified the boot.cfg for example by a line :
menu=Boot silent user:boot netbsd -z
where -z is the silent mode.
Welcome to NetBSD
viasisco
Posted 2011-07-26T11:22:01.977
Reputation: 26
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Concerning the kern.boothowto, may be have you seen this links : http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sysctl+7+NetBSD-currenthttp://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?sysctl+7+NetBSD-current and http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?9+boothowto+NetBSD-currenthttp://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?9+boothowto+NetBSD-current. I did not try it, but it can help you.
viasisco
Posted 2011-07-26T11:22:01.977
Reputation: 26
Thanks for ur reply. I ll try it out. But i am looking for editing boothowto variable value which is passed as argument from bootloader to kernal. If u have any info, it will be helpful. – None – 2011-07-26T14:59:23.610
which kind of netbsd do you use? 5 or current (soon 6) or an other? – None – 2011-07-27T14:13:54.907
I use NetBSD version 5. Is setting boothowto variable depends on any other flag? I mean I came across something like bootsuppress message flag?
Thanks. – Arvin – 2011-07-28T10:32:52.460
kern.boothowto seems to be bringed since sysctl(7). Have a look at your /etc/sysctl.conf. – viasisco – 2011-07-29T13:20:01.290