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Re: OF setting for Quik booting in a 7200



On  17 Feb, this message from Sebastiaan echoed through cyberspace:
> it took me a couple of days before I had figured out how it works. The
> solution was in the manpage of nvsetenv.
> 
> This is what I did for my 7300:
> boot-device	scsi-int/sd@0:0
> boot-file	/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

When using nvsetenv, make sure to enclose your boot-file value in quotes
and add a space in front. The leading space is important as it specifies
a string in Forth. And OF is nothing else than a Forth interpreter ;-)

Michel

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