From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 6 10:34:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22732 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 10:34:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from saturn.spel.com (saturn.spel.com [208.226.39.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22727 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 10:34:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mturpin@saturn.spel.com) Received: from localhost (mturpin@localhost) by saturn.spel.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA05641; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 13:30:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mturpin@saturn.spel.com) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 13:30:38 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Turpin To: curtis cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD/axp - Smoothing the Edges In-Reply-To: <366A498D.867C00F@pacific.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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 ] [-flags [,]] [-protocols ] [-halt] [