Re: what set of bootfloppys for alphaserver 1200?

[Nikita Schmidt <cetus@snowball.ucd.ie>]

On Friday, 18 Feb, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> 
> How can I find out the filename of the file to boot? Is there an srm-command
> for that?
> 

For the Debian boot disks it is sufficient to do `boot dva0 -flags 0' - this
will use the `0:' entry in the etc/aboot.conf file on the floppy:

0:linux.gz ro root=/dev/fd0 load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=1

You can also boot this with `boot dva0 -file linux.gz -flags "ro ..."'.
When flags are empty, aboot should display the contents of etc/aboot.conf,
and there is some helpful text in the comments.  Unfortunately, it does
not do that when flags are something like `i', which is typical for a
Digital UNIX installation.

Nikita