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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 06:47:24 +1000
From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture
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 peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 08:50:18AM +1000
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On 2001-Sep-12 08:50:18 +1000, I wrote:
>Unlike the i386, Alpha boot flags must be specified via the SRM - eg it
>isn't possible[1] to boot single user by issuing 'boot -s' to the
>FreeBSD boot-loader, you have to use 'boot -fl s' at the SRM.

I did some more investigating and can't now reproduce the above
behaviour.  Entering either "boot -s" to the FreeBSD loader or
"boot -fl s" to the SRM do the same thing.  I haven't touched my
SRM and that part of elf_exec() hasn't functionally changed for
more than 2 years so I have no idea how I came to the above
conclusion.

My apologies for circulating mis-information.

Peter

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