Re: 600ua questions

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Alexander Kotelnikov <sacha@debian.org> writes:

> >>>>> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:17:19 -0500
> >>>>> "JE" == Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@compaq.com> wrote:
> JE> 
> >> 7. Point me at how do I make my alpha booting automaticly. Now I need
> >> to type "boot" in SRM and "0" in aboot prompt.
> JE> 
> JE> Do:
> JE> 
> >>>> set AUTO_ACTION BOOT
> JE> 
> JE> and set the boot_* parameters appropriately; example:
> JE> 
> >>>> set boot_def_dev dka0
> >>>> set boot_file "2/boot/vmlinux.gz"
> >>>> set boot_osflags "root=/dev/sda2 single"
> 
> I want to ask more before doing so.
> 1. Will I be able to turn auto_action back into default state without
> using  /proc/srm_varables/?

You can press Ctrl-C during startup.

> 2. these instructions will make aboot to boot the kernel or this is
> some kind of direct boot from srm?

It just gets passed to aboot, nothing really different.

> 3. is there any way to make just aboot booting a specified kernel
> automatically?

You can also just set boot_osflag to a number, like 0, to make aboot
boot the configuration with the corresponding number in aboot.conf.

-- 
	Falk