From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 25 17:30:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from jking1.lgc.com (jking1.lgc.com [134.132.228.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40DE37BDD1 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:30:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from marble (marble [134.132.228.8]) by jking1.lgc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA04012; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:30:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Message-ID: <003b01bfaf16$959b0890$08e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Christian Weisgerber" , References: <8e575m$1ia9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> Subject: Re: SRM questions (mildly off-topic) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 19:30:10 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Christian Weisgerber wrote: > 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. Ctrl-C works. I'm not sure precisely when you're supposed to type it to interrupt the boot sequence, but it doesn't seem to be very critical. > * 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. I have a Netgear 21140 card in my AS200. SRM recognizes it, so I assume it would be able to netboot off it. I've never tried though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message