Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:23:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SRM questions (mildly off-topic) Message-ID: <200004270623.XAA00640@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:37:55 %2B0200." <20000426193754.J1021@yedi.wbnet>
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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. Some don't. Hit ^C. Lots. Note that, like the i386 bootstrap, you can hit a key while the early bootstrap is loading and select a loader other than the default /boot/loader. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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