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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?

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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

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  • 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, 2011 at 14:59
  • which kind of netbsd do you use? 5 or current (soon 6) or an other?
    – Battavia
    Jul 27, 2011 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.
    – Arvin
    Jul 28, 2011 at 10:32
  • kern.boothowto seems to be bringed since sysctl(7). Have a look at your /etc/sysctl.conf.
    – Dim-Jones
    Jul 29, 2011 at 13:20

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