From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 12 10: 5:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wrs.com (unknown-1-11.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4BA437B408; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:05:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@[147.11.46.201]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA28653; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010912085018.X48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:02:32 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Peter Jeremy Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org, "Bruce A. Mah" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 11-Sep-01 Peter Jeremy wrote: > One comment: > Unlike the i386, Alpha boot flags must be specified via the SRM - eg it > isn't possible[1] to boot single user by issuing 'boot -s' to the > FreeBSD boot-loader, you have to use 'boot -fl s' at the SRM. > > [1] At least it wasn't a couple of months ago when I last updated my > system. Erm, I've used 'boot -s' from the loader many, many, many times on my alpha test systems. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message