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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?

Battavia · Answer 1 · 2011-07-26 14:29:36Z

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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.

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answered Jul 26 '11 at 14:29

	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. – user863316 Jul 26 '11 at 14:59
	which kind of netbsd do you use? 5 or current (soon 6) or an other? – Battavia Jul 27 '11 at 14:13
	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. – user863316 Jul 28 '11 at 10:32
	kern.boothowto seems to be bringed since sysctl(7). Have a look at your /etc/sysctl.conf. – Battavia Jul 29 '11 at 13:20

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Battavia · Answer 2 · 2011-07-27 14:43:14Z

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