Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:09:55 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? Message-ID: <20000509180955.A9715@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, May 09, 2000 at 04:59:14PM -0700 References: <20000509175343.A9592@panzer.kdm.org> <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 16:59:14 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. Unfortunately that doesn't work. I can hit all sorts of keys, but they don't get me a boot prompt. > I don't know why the -file argument isn't used; I suspect that there are > probably space issues in the boot1 code. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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