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Date:      Sun, 6 Dec 1998 13:30:38 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mark Turpin <mturpin@saturn.spel.com>
To:        curtis <ufkartfm@pacific.net>
Cc:        "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD/axp - Smoothing the Edges
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812061325590.5629-100000@saturn.spel.com>
In-Reply-To: <366A498D.867C00F@pacific.net>

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> 
> Mark Turpin wrote:
> > I have a webpage that documents my process of installing the system. it's
> > at http://www.mainstreettech.com/~mturpin/alpha.html
> 
> Nice Job Mark; however, for the record, where you say:
> 
> "To boot from the hard drive type:
> 
>       >>> boot -flags 'a' dka0"
> 
> Even though it will work this way, SRM wants to see it like this:
> 
> boot dka0 -flags a    and if you boot something other than "kernel" then
> boot dka0 -file (name) -flags a       the same is true for booting dva0.
> 

	I don't mean to be a pest, but when you type help boot from the
SRM console it says..

	boot [-file <filename>] [-flags <longword>[,<longword>]]
	      [-protocols <enet_protocol>] [-halt]
              [<boot_device]
	
As you can see boot_device comes last.


Mark

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