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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:11:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthias Halfmann <halfmm@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Emergency boot from floppy on an alpha
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Hello,

I have an alpha 164sx with freebsd installed. The OS
is on a scsi disk driven by a fireport 40. I didn't
realise during the install that the alpha SRM console
can't talk to the fireport. So now I can't boot the
system from the scsi disk. I should be able to use the
kern.flp disk to boot a kernel tell the kernel to use
my scsi disk as the rootdev. Does anyone know how I
would go about doing this? I have tried 

boot dv -file /kernel -flags c

to enter userconfig but I do'nt get any change in the
boot up, the kernel is loaded and before anything else
happends I am asked for MFS floppy. 

Can anyone suggest a solution?

thanks
matthias

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