From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 9 16:59:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94DC37BEDF; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:59:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA21039; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:59:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Mike Smith , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 May 2000 17:53:43 MDT." <20000509175343.A9592@panzer.kdm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:59:14 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Does anyone have any ideas for recovering it, other than trying to netboot > it off another box? (I don't have any other Alpha boxes I could put the > disk into, and DEC Unix on that machine doesn't seem to want to boot for > some reason.) > > I actually saved the working loader as /boot/loader.works, but using the > -file option to SRM's boot command doesn't seem to work. When the box boots, you get a couple of seconds pause after SRM has finished spewing at you and before the loader loads. Hit a key and you'll get the emergency boot: prompt. Type '/boot/loader.works' and you should be in business. I don't know why the -file argument isn't used; I suspect that there are probably space issues in the boot1 code. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message