Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:37:55 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SRM questions (mildly off-topic) Message-ID: <20000426193754.J1021@yedi.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <8e575m$1ia9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>; from naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:45:10AM %2B0200 References: <8e575m$1ia9$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 12:45:10AM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > These questions are only very tenuously related to FreeBSD: > > * How do I interrupt SRM's autoboot sequence on start-up? > > Following the example in INSTALL.TXT, I have set SRM to boot from > disk automatically. Now if I want to break into the SRM boot on > power-on or after a reset, I need to wait until the FreeBSD loader > has come up and issue the "halt" command there. There *must* be > some way to interrupt SRM to avoid an infinite reboot loop in > case of catastrophic bootstrap failure. Press the haltbutton ;-) Really, instead of a reset button like on PCs Alpha tend to have a halt switch. > * The SRM in "my" AXPpci33 dates from 1996, from the decaxppci33_v1_6.exe > update file on ftp.digital.com. Can this version handle a 100Base-TX > card? > > Obviously, SRM only needs to support an ethernet card for > netbooting. We'll probably never actually use this, but for purely > aesthetical reasons it's a nice capability to have. Currently > the machine has a DE435 (DEC 21040) 10M-TP/BNC/AUI-Combo card, > probably what it originally shipped with. SRM recognizes this > card. Today, I experimentally put in a KNE100TX (DEC 21140A). > Surprise! SRM recognizes this card, too. I do wonder whether it > will put the NIC into 100Mbit/s mode, though. When I booted up > FreeBSD, de(4) had the card into 10Base-T half-duplex mode although > it was connected to a 100Base-TX full-duplex switch port. I could not het my NoName to boot from a genuine DE500 card. YMMV. -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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