Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 09:28:41 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, obrien@freebsd.org, Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borked Alpha boot loader? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005100928190.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200005092359.QAA21039@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Tue, 9 May 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > Does anyone have any ideas for recovering it, other than trying to netboot > > it off another box? (I don't have any other Alpha boxes I could put the > > disk into, and DEC Unix on that machine doesn't seem to want to boot for > > some reason.) > > > > I actually saved the working loader as /boot/loader.works, but using the > > -file option to SRM's boot command doesn't seem to work. > > When the box boots, you get a couple of seconds pause after SRM has > finished spewing at you and before the loader loads. Hit a key and > you'll get the emergency boot: prompt. Type '/boot/loader.works' and you > should be in business. > > I don't know why the -file argument isn't used; I suspect that there are > probably space issues in the boot1 code. The -file argument is used by /boot/loader to select which kernel to load. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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