Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:59:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? Message-ID: <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 2000 17:53:43 MDT." <20000509175343.A9592@panzer.kdm.org>
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> Does anyone have any ideas for recovering it, other than trying to netboot > it off another box? (I don't have any other Alpha boxes I could put the > disk into, and DEC Unix on that machine doesn't seem to want to boot for > some reason.) > > I actually saved the working loader as /boot/loader.works, but using the > -file option to SRM's boot command doesn't seem to work. When the box boots, you get a couple of seconds pause after SRM has finished spewing at you and before the loader loads. Hit a key and you'll get the emergency boot: prompt. Type '/boot/loader.works' and you should be in business. I don't know why the -file argument isn't used; I suspect that there are probably space issues in the boot1 code. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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