From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Sep 12 15:59:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86F8437B403 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8CMxfR98553; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:59:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:59:41 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Rob B Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture Message-ID: <20010912155941.A98523@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010912085018.X48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20010913064252.G48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20010913064612.00a6eda0@pop.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20010913064612.00a6eda0@pop.ozemail.com.au>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:47:37AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:47:37AM +1000, Rob B wrote: > You'll probably find it's a "feature" of SRM. The Multia SRM is really > really old, and doesn't do a lot of the things the newer SRM version can do. This has got nothing to do with SRM. One should set their bootflags to ''. Then "boot dka0" (for example) which will load the loader. At that one one is free to hit the space bar followed by "boot -s". Please do not confuse the firmware "boot" command with the loader "boot" command. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message