Re: Getting Multia to boot by itself

[Alex Angerhofer <alex chem ufl edu>]

In reply to James Knowles's letter who wrote on  9 Oct:
> 
> I've spent some time this week taking an old Multia, connecting and
> external SCSI drive to it, and getting RedHat 6.0 up on it. I'm really
> quite pleased with it overall. It's not a screamer, but does nicely
> nevertheless. It'll do as low-volume web server. 
> 
> Currently, to get the machine up I let it boot to SRM, then I boot off
> of the floppy (dva0) that has a milo.dd image on it. From milo I boot
> off of a kernel on sda1 (later mounted as /boot). 
> 
> I'm wondering, how can I get this machine to boot by itself (like my
> Intel-based Linux boxes do). After doing as much reading as I can, I'm
> quite confused. (I do that easily sometimes.) 
> 
> Thanks for your patience. I'm new to Alphas, but having fun
> nevertheless. 
> 
> James
> 

James,

I had exactly the same problem a couple of days ago, and someone on the
SuSE AXP list helped me out with the following:

The boot settings you probably want are:

>>>set boot_file "2/boot/vmlinuz"
>>>set boot_osflags "root=/dev/sda2"
>>>set bootdef_dev dka0
>>>set auto_action boot

and you're set.

This assumes that you have aboot installed and that your root partition
is on /dev/sda2. Correct the device specification according to your
set-up. It also assumes that you have the kernel in /boot/vmlinuz. You
also may want to make sure that dka0 is the correct boot device from
the point of view of your SRM console.

Hope this helps, Alex.




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