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Date:      Thu, 13 Sep 2001 21:13:26 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Handbook installation chapter for Alpha architecture
Message-ID:  <20010913211326.A46909@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010912155941.A98523@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:59:41PM -0700
References:  <XFMail.010912100232.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010912085018.X48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <XFMail.010912100232.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20010913064252.G48793@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20010913064612.00a6eda0@pop.ozemail.com.au> <20010912155941.A98523@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 03:59:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:47:37AM +1000, Rob B wrote:
> > You'll probably find it's a "feature" of SRM.  The Multia SRM is really 
> > really old, and doesn't do a lot of the things the newer SRM version can do.

The very latest Multia SRM is at ftp://ftp.tcja.nl/pub/wilko

> This has got nothing to do with SRM.  One should set their bootflags to ''.

BOOT_OSFLAGS set to A also works.

> Then "boot dka0" (for example) which will load the loader.  At that one
> one is free to hit the space bar followed by "boot -s".  Please do not
> confuse the firmware "boot" command with the loader "boot" command.

Absolutely.

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