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Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 18:09:55 -0600
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader?
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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
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Kenneth Merry
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