diff --git a/etc.Linux/rc.conf b/etc.Linux/rc.conf
index 72ab631a..d1c216f3 100644
--- a/etc.Linux/rc.conf
+++ b/etc.Linux/rc.conf
@@ -7,18 +7,18 @@
 rc_tty_number=12
 
 # Use this variable to control the /dev management behavior.
-#  auto   - let the scripts figure out what's best at boot
 #  devfs  - use devfs (requires sys-fs/devfsd)
 #  mdev   - use mdev (requires sys-apps/busybox)
 #  udev   - use udev (requires sys-fs/udev)
 #  static - let the user manage /dev (YOU need to create ALL device nodes)
-rc_devices="auto"
+# Leave it blank to let rc work it out (udev, mdev, devfs, static)
+#rc_devices=""
 
 # UDEV OPTION:
 # Set to "yes" if you want to save /dev to a tarball on shutdown
 # and restore it on startup.  This is useful if you have a lot of
 # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about.
-RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
+rc_device_tarball="NO"
 
 # Sets the level at which logging of messages is done to the
 # console.  See dmesg(8) for more info.
diff --git a/sh.BSD/init.sh b/sh.BSD/init.sh
index 71902c51..a9797c95 100755
--- a/sh.BSD/init.sh
+++ b/sh.BSD/init.sh
@@ -2,13 +2,6 @@
 # Copyright 2007-2008 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
 # All rights reserved. Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
 
-# void single_user()
-#  Drop to a shell, remount / ro, and then reboot
-single_user()
-{
-	exit 1
-}
-
 # This basically mounts $svcdir as a ramdisk, but preserving its content
 # which allows us to run depscan.sh
 # FreeBSD has a nice ramdisk - we don't set a size as we should always
@@ -17,7 +10,7 @@ single_user()
 # FreeBSD-7 supports tmpfs now :)
 mount_svcdir()
 {
-	local dotmp=false release=false
+	local dotmp=false release=false retval=0
 	if [ -e "${RC_SVCDIR}"/deptree ]; then
 		dotmp=true
 		if ! mount -t tmpfs none "${RC_LIBDIR}"/tmp 2>/dev/null; then
@@ -34,12 +27,15 @@ mount_svcdir()
 		newfs -b 4096 -i 1024 -n /dev/md0
 		mount -o rw,noexec,nosuid /dev/md0 "${RC_SVCDIR}"
 	fi
+	retval=$?
 	if ${dotmp}; then
 		cp -p "${RC_LIBDIR}"/tmp/deptree "${RC_LIBDIR}"/tmp/depconfig \
 			"${RC_LIBDIR}"/tmp/nettree "${RC_SVCDIR}" 2>/dev/null
 		umount "${RC_LIBDIR}"/tmp
 		${release} && mdconfig -d -u 1
 	fi
+
+	return ${retval}
 }
 
 . "${RC_LIBDIR}"/sh/functions.sh
diff --git a/sh.Linux/init.sh b/sh.Linux/init.sh
index 8be70792..5b37df8e 100755
--- a/sh.Linux/init.sh
+++ b/sh.Linux/init.sh
@@ -39,25 +39,6 @@ KV_to_int()
 	echo "${KV_int}"
 }
 
-single_user()
-{
-	if [ "${RC_SYS}" = "VPS" ]; then
-		einfo "Halting"
-		halt -f
-		return
-	fi
-
-	sulogin ${CONSOLE}
-	einfo "Unmounting filesystems"
-	if [ -c /dev/null ]; then
-		mount -a -o remount,ro 2>/dev/null
-	else
-		mount -a -o remount,ro
-	fi
-	einfo "Rebooting"
-	reboot -f
-}
-
 # This basically mounts $svcdir as a ramdisk, but preserving its content
 # which allows us to run depscan.sh
 # The tricky part is finding something our kernel supports
@@ -65,7 +46,7 @@ single_user()
 mount_svcdir()
 {
 	local fs= fsopts="-o rw,noexec,nodev,nosuid" devdir="none" devtmp="none" x=
-	local svcsize=${svcsize:-1024}
+	local svcsize=${rc_svcsize:-1024}
 
 	if grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+tmpfs$" /proc/filesystems; then
 		fs="tmpfs"
@@ -79,15 +60,15 @@ mount_svcdir()
 		devtmp="/dev/ram1"
 		fs="ext2"
 		for x in ${devdir} ${devtmp}; do
-			dd if=/dev/zero of="${x}" bs=1k count="${rc_svcsize:-1024}"
-			mkfs -t "${fs}" -i 1024 -vm0 "${x}" "${rc_svcsize:-1024}"
+			dd if=/dev/zero of="${x}" bs=1k count="${svcsize}"
+			mkfs -t "${fs}" -i 1024 -vm0 "${x}" "${svcsize}"
 		done
 	else
 		echo
 		eerror "OpenRC requires tmpfs, ramfs or 2 ramdisks + ext2"
 		eerror "compiled into the kernel"
 		echo
-		single_user
+		return 1
 	fi
 
 	local dotmp=false
@@ -98,7 +79,7 @@ mount_svcdir()
 			"${RC_SVCDIR}"/nettree "${RC_LIBDIR}"/tmp 2>/dev/null
 	fi
 
-	# If we have no entry in fstab for $svcdir, provide our own
+	# If we have no entry in fstab for $RC_SVCDIR, provide our own
 	if fstabinfo --quiet "${RC_SVCDIR}"; then
 		mount -n "${RC_SVCDIR}"
 	else
@@ -190,22 +171,18 @@ if [ "${RC_UNAME}" != "GNU/kFreeBSD" -a "${RC_SYS}" != "VPS" ]; then
 fi
 
 # Try to figure out how the user wants /dev handled
-#  - check $RC_DEVICES from /etc/conf.d/rc
-#  - check boot parameters
-#  - make sure the required binaries exist
-#  - make sure the kernel has support
-if [ "${rc_devices}" = "static" -o "${RC_SYS}" = "VPS" ]; then
+if [ "${rc_devices}" = "static" \
+	-o "${RC_SYS}" = "VPS" \
+	-o "${RC_UNAME}" = "GNU/kFreeBSD" ]
+then
 	ebegin "Using existing device nodes in /dev"
 	eend 0
-elif [ "${RC_UNAME}" = "GNU/kFreeBSD" ]; then
-	ebegin "Using kFreeBSD devfs in /dev"
-	eend 0
 else
 	case ${rc_devices} in
 		devfs)  managers="devfs udev mdev";;
 		udev)   managers="udev devfs mdev";;
 		mdev)   managers="mdev udev devfs";;
-		auto|*) managers="udev devfs mdev";;
+		*)      managers="udev devfs mdev";;
 	esac
 
 	for m in ${managers}; do
@@ -222,7 +199,8 @@ else
 fi
 
 # Mount required stuff as user may not have then in /etc/fstab
-for x in "devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620" "tmpfs /dev/shm 1777 ,nodev"; do
+for x in "devpts /dev/pts 0755 ,gid=5,mode=0620" "tmpfs /dev/shm 1777 ,nodev"
+do
 	set -- ${x}
 	grep -Eq "[[:space:]]+$1$" /proc/filesystems || continue
 	mountinfo -q "$2" && continue
diff --git a/sh/init-common-post.sh b/sh/init-common-post.sh
index a246a846..cb449998 100644
--- a/sh/init-common-post.sh
+++ b/sh/init-common-post.sh
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # Copyright 2007-2008 Roy Marples <roy@marples.name>
 # All rights reserved. Released under the 2-clause BSD license.
 
+retval=0
+
 # mount $svcdir as something we can write to if it's not rw
 # On vservers, / is always rw at this point, so we need to clean out
 # the old service state data
-if [ "${RC_SVCDIR}" != "/" ] &&  mkdir "${RC_SVCDIR}/.test.$$" 2>/dev/null; then
+if [ "${RC_SVCDIR}" != "/" ] && mkdir "${RC_SVCDIR}/.test.$$" 2>/dev/null; then
 	rmdir "${RC_SVCDIR}/.test.$$"
 	for x in ${RC_SVCDIR:-/lib/rc/init.d}/*; do
 		[ -e "${x}" ] || continue
@@ -15,6 +17,7 @@ if [ "${RC_SVCDIR}" != "/" ] &&  mkdir "${RC_SVCDIR}/.test.$$" 2>/dev/null; then
 	done
 else
 	mount_svcdir
+	retval=$?
 fi
 
 echo "sysinit" > "${RC_SVCDIR}/softlevel"
@@ -22,4 +25,4 @@ echo "sysinit" > "${RC_SVCDIR}/softlevel"
 # sysinit is now done, so allow init scripts to run normally
 [ -e /dev/.rcsysinit ] && rm -f /dev/.rcsysinit
 
-exit 0
+exit ${retval}