Re: Alpha issues (SRM installation)
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com wrote:
>
> >>> rdp@talisman.mv.com said:
> >
> > > It's too bad that there's no way to set SRM environment variables from
> > > within a booted OS, as I've discovered that aboot is rather picky about
> > > booting correctly when bootdef_dev and bootdef_osflags aren't set :(
> >
> > Yeah, I don't know much about that level. Richard or Jay would be much
> > better suited to talk about that, I do remember seeing something about why
> > we can't do that, but can't remember what it was.
>
> It's not easily done because the SRM console expects a certain environment
> when it is called, both in address space and in argument list (VMS-style!).
>
> We have some tentative patches that support a number of callbacks such
> as getenv/setenv/puts, done against 2.2.14 IIRC.
>
> Anyone willing to help test them?
Hmmm..sure, if you don't mind sending them along it would be good to take
a look.
thanks,
--rdp
> --Jay++
>
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Rich Payne
rpayne@alphalinux.org www.alphalinux.org
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