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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Turpin | Consulting - Training - Network Installation Systems Engineer | Main Street Technology Centre | http://www.MainStreetTech.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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