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?
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
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.