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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To: Scott Sewall <sewall@ix.netcom.com>
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Subject: Re: How to configure boot behavior
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:42:57PM -0700, Scott Sewall wrote:
> 
> How do I configure my Alpha CS20 to completely boot after a power failure?
> 
> It currently sits at the console prompt, where I need to enter the boot 
> command to
> complete the boot process.

>From SRM, make sure you have the default boot device you want selected
"bootdev_def" (or something like that), then make sure you have auto_boot
(or something like that) set appropiately.  From SRM do "show | more" and
you'll see the things you need to set in the first 50 lines of output.