In message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601281643500.24076@m24s24.vlinux.de>, Hubert Feyrer 
writes:
>It seems that NetBSD/alpha doesn't boot to multiuser mode by default after 
>an installation. While 
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/1998/02/24/0001.html describes how 
>to do that by hand, I'm sure there's some magic so DTRT on every boot, 
>probably with some frobbing in SRM.

Set the environment variable boot_options to -a in SRM.  (I'm
pretty sure I remember that as the right one.  I'm typing this
on mine, so I can't take it down right now to double check.)

BLS