On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 12:34:54AM +0100, Paul Millar wrote: > On Tuesday 17 August 2004 00:26, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 12:21:24PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > boot ewa0 -fl "" always works for me. > Sorry Steve, I didn't get your reply straight off. > Erm, yeah, kinda obvious once you say it. I had boot_osflag set to 0 from a > previous aboot installation. I can confirm that doing > boot ewa0 -fl "" > *does* work, as does unsetting the boot_osflag. > So everything works OK, but perhaps this gotcha could/should be documented > somewhere. The install manual says that ``boot ewa0'' should work: > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.alpha/ch05s01.html#id2511128 > If one has default aboot boot_osflag set, then the install will fail. I think > just a one-liner, saying to try adding the -fl "" if boot ewa0 fails would be > enough. Yep, I've updated the alpha documentation in this area. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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