Re: 2.4.21 on alpha

[Tyson Whitehead <twhitehe@uwo.ca>]

On June 30, 2003 12:36, Joerg Hoh wrote:
> alpha:~# cat /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action
> BOOT
> alpha:~# echo "BOOT" > /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action
>
> the machine doesn't come back to the prompt; on the serial terminal I get
> this:

Humm.  I've tried it on a few different PW500a in our lab.  Some of them take 
a long time before they come back (5min).  Some come back right away (1s).

Strange, because as far as I know, they are all identical machines.  Maybe 
different firmware versions or something?

The only time I locked on up was when I did:

cat /proc/srm_environment/named_variales/boot_dev \
  /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/bootdef_dev

I assume this causes a deadlock in the module?

I noticed that if you set stuff in the SRM environment, it doesn't add in a 
newline.  One of our lab machines complains if you try and set any SRM 
variables with a newline on the end (the other ones don't seem to care).

Maybe you should try:

echo -n "BOOT" > /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action

Later  -T

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