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Re: undone by a dead CR2032 button cell



On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 12:03:37AM -0700, Alan Young wrote:
> (...)
> And should the day ever come, heavens forbid, that a card has passed into
> the silicon beyond, remember that SRM can boot headless and has a serial
> port console on COM1.
> (...)

Hmmm...  As long as it is possible to do the AlphaBIOS --> SRM switch
with the "foreign" video card (i.e., even though AlphaBIOS complains
about the PCI configuration), being able to boot SRM headless to set
"pci_device_override" is a good thing to know about.  Thanks!

--Bob


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