From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Apr 26 23:15:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-132.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED7C37B81D for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA00640; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:23:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004270623.XAA00640@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SRM questions (mildly off-topic) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:37:55 +0200." <20000426193754.J1021@yedi.wbnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 23:23:38 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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