From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 13 12:13:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtp9.xs4all.nl (smtp9.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD3CF37B410; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 12:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp9.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA28343; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:13:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8DJDQf46923; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:13:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:13:26 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Rob B , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture Message-ID: <20010913211326.A46909@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010912085018.X48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20010913064252.G48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20010913064612.00a6eda0@pop.ozemail.com.au> <20010912155941.A98523@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010912155941.A98523@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:59:41PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:59:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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. The very latest Multia SRM is at ftp://ftp.tcja.nl/pub/wilko > This has got nothing to do with SRM. One should set their bootflags to ''. BOOT_OSFLAGS set to A also works. > 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. Absolutely. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message