From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 10 1:24:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E34437B584; Wed, 10 May 2000 01:24:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12pRms-0007cy-0U; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:24:10 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA30351; Wed, 10 May 2000 09:27:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:28:41 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , obrien@freebsd.org, Matthew Jacob , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? In-Reply-To: <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 9 May 2000, 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. The -file argument is used by /boot/loader to select which kernel to load. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message