From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 6 11:58:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29113 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:58:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pacific.net (pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA29108 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:57:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ufkartfm@pacific.net) Received: from pacific.net (slime-lake.pacific.net [209.209.2.250]) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA06703; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 11:57:53 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <366A7156.C2464D51@pacific.net> Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 11:58:14 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Turpin CC: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: FreeBSD/axp - Smoothing the Edges References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (chuckle) Thank you for pointing out the manual; but, I would trust the firmware MORE than the Manual. Please try this experiment from SRM: >>>boot themanualisnotalwayscorrect device themanualisnotalwayscorrect is invalid usage is boot [-file ] [-flags ] >>> eopm, curtis Mark Turpin wrote: > > > > > 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] > [ > 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 > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody I want Nobody to control my life! How about you? http://www.netvideo.com/nobody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message