From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 9 17:11:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (peter1.yahoo.com [208.48.107.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A68637BF04; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 907C61CE5; Tue, 9 May 2000 17:11:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mike Smith Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Matthew Jacob , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? In-Reply-To: Message from Mike Smith of "Tue, 09 May 2000 16:59:14 PDT." <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:11:14 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000510001114.907C61CE5@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > I don't know why the -file argument isn't used; I suspect that there are > probably space issues in the boot1 code. -file means which kernel file, not which loader... Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message