From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 25 17:15:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0031037B5BE for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id CAA16155 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:15:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA51543 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 00:45:10 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: SRM questions (mildly off-topic) Date: 26 Apr 2000 00:45:10 +0200 Message-ID: <8e575m$1ia9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org These questions are only very tenuously related to FreeBSD: * How do I interrupt SRM's autoboot sequence on start-up? Following the example in INSTALL.TXT, I have set SRM to boot from disk automatically. Now if I want to break into the SRM boot on power-on or after a reset, I need to wait until the FreeBSD loader has come up and issue the "halt" command there. There *must* be some way to interrupt SRM to avoid an infinite reboot loop in case of catastrophic bootstrap failure. * The SRM in "my" AXPpci33 dates from 1996, from the decaxppci33_v1_6.exe update file on ftp.digital.com. Can this version handle a 100Base-TX card? Obviously, SRM only needs to support an ethernet card for netbooting. We'll probably never actually use this, but for purely aesthetical reasons it's a nice capability to have. Currently the machine has a DE435 (DEC 21040) 10M-TP/BNC/AUI-Combo card, probably what it originally shipped with. SRM recognizes this card. Today, I experimentally put in a KNE100TX (DEC 21140A). Surprise! SRM recognizes this card, too. I do wonder whether it will put the NIC into 100Mbit/s mode, though. When I booted up FreeBSD, de(4) had the card into 10Base-T half-duplex mode although it was connected to a 100Base-TX full-duplex switch port. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message