NetBSD Problem Report #39179
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From: ggm@pobox.com
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Subject: reboot -- -s and /boot.cfg don't seem to play nice together (it doesn't boot single-user)
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>Number: 39179
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: reboot -- -s and /boot.cfg don't seem to play nice together (it doesn't boot single-user)
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 21 05:00:01 +0000 2008
>Last-Modified: Mon Jul 21 06:40:01 +0000 2008
>Originator: George Michaelson
>Release: Current
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD snoid 4.99.70 NetBSD 4.99.70 (GGM) #3: Tue Jul 22 00:29:07 EST 2008 ggm@snoid:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GGM i386
>Description:
reboot -- -s is meant to pass the -s flag to the boot. My hope was this would translate to a boot -s single user.
It looks like if you have /boot.cfg, then flags passed across the boot are silently ignored.
-G
>How-To-Repeat:
have /boot.cfg with a menu. try and send a boot -s across a reboot
>Fix:
not sure. should the .cfg check code always check if an argument was passed across boot?
which should take priority anyway?
if reboot -- -s can't work on i386 then maybe the man page should be updated instead?
>Audit-Trail:
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: re: kern/39179: reboot -- -s and /boot.cfg don't seem to play nice together (it doesn't boot single-user)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:07 +1000
"reboot -- -s" doesn't work on i386 or most platforms AFAIK.
.mrg.
From: George Michaelson <ggm@pobox.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/39179: reboot -- -s and /boot.cfg don't seem to play nice together (it doesn't boot single-user)
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:34:57 +1000
On 21/07/2008, at 3:20 PM, matthew green wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/39179; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
> Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
> netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
> Subject: re: kern/39179: reboot -- -s and /boot.cfg don't seem to
> play nice together (it doesn't boot single-user)
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:16:07 +1000
>
> "reboot -- -s" doesn't work on i386 or most platforms AFAIK.
>
>
> .mrg.
>
close it. -its not worth keeping open on a docco issue although is
somebody feels like making this more explicit in the arch/i386 branch
I'd not complain
-G
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