Re: boot loader
Or you can change the settings in /etc/aboot.conf to reflect what you want
passed to aboot. This way you can still auto boot. Otherwise, hit ctl-c
lots of times to get back to SRM (while booting). Set the boot_os (I
think) flag to 0 or none (I don't recall the value). And it will pause in
SRM for you to give it what you want.
James
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez wrote:
>
>
> Thanks Rich and Michael!. But I have yet another small problem.
>
> I left a small empty space in front of the disk drive,
> Now the debian installer made my "system booteable" without any complain.
> when the system has been rebooted it start, jumps to bootstrap code and
> write in the console the meesage:
>
> aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9
> aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.21
> aboot: valid disklabel found: 6 partitions
> aboot: could not find default config `a'
> Welcome to aboot 0.9
> Commands:
> ...
> aboot>
>
> and stop!.
>
> Aparently the reason to stop is that it internally gives the command:
>
> >>> boot dka0 -flags a
>
> When I give the command:
>
> aboot> boot dka0 -flags 0
>
> the system start Debian/GNU Linux normally.
>
> How can I change permanently the flags option from the SRM console?
>
> TIA
>
>
> > What's wrong?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > On 11 Sep 2003, Michael A. Mackey wrote:
> >
> > > That way of partitioning the disk won't work. Delete your small
> > > partition and everything should be okay (you'll need to re-run
> > > swriteboot).
> > >
> > > The correct way to partition the disk is to start partition 1 at sector
> > > 3, leaving unpartitioned space up front for the aboot loader.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 12:31, Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez wrote:
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > I have been traying to install Debian GNU/Linux on my Alpha server 800 and
> > > > I have a little problem with aboot loader
> > > > When I made the partitions (bsd disklabel style) I left an small empty
> > > > partition at the beginning of the disk drive (from cylinder 1 to cylinder
> > > > 2) for aboot, later the instaler program cannot install the aboot boot
> > > > loader, I think the proble it could be the type of partition label.
> > > > What kind of partition label it need to be? (unsused, 4.2BSD, boot,
> > > > ...)
> > > >
> > > > TIA.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez
> > > > mailto:leo[@]ubiobio.cl
> > > > [leo-> ~ $] cd pub && more beer
> > > --
> > > Prof. Michael A. Mackey (michael-mackey@uiowa.edu)
> > > Biomedical Engineering / Pathology
> > > University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
> > > Voice: 319-335-6058 Fax: 319-335-5631
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez
> > mailto:leo[@]ubiobio.cl
> > [leo-> ~ $] cd pub && more beer
> >
> >
>
> --
> Leonardo Saavedra Henriquez
> mailto:leo[@]ubiobio.cl
> [leo-> ~ $] cd pub && more beer
>
>
>
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