Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:48:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: halfmm@rpi.edu Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passing kernel arguments from SRM Message-ID: <200101242048.f0OKmhI00978@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:29:47 PST." <20010124202947.15930.qmail@web1305.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Hello, I have a 164sx machine with a fireport scsi
> card. Since srm won't boot anything off the fireport I
> am planing on using a kernel on a boot disk and having
> it mount the rootdev on my scsi drive. The only kernel
> image I have is the kern.flp disk. How can I get into
> the kernel config at boot time? I have tried:
>
> boot dv -flags c/-c with no luck.
>
> I assume that it is possilbe to do what I want, can
> anyone offer any suggestions?
Yes; wait for the loader countdown. If you don't put the second disk in
when prompted, it will fail to load the MFS image and boot from the
harddisk.
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