RE: Remote boot with SRM Console?

["B. James Phillippe" <bryan terran org>]

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Hyung Min SEO wrote:

> > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Hyung Min SEO wrote:
> > 
> > > Is it possible to remote boot the Linux with SRM Console?
> > > Where can I get the documentation for it?
> > 
> > There is a section (3.7) in the SRM-HOWTO that describes how to boot
> > Linux/AXP via bootp using the SRM console.  One divergence is that in my
...
> There is so many environments about bootp on SRM console.
> For example ewa0_arp_tries, ewa0_bootp_file, ewa0_bootp_server,

Don't need to dork around with most of that unless you want to set
defaults.  Set ewa0_protocol to bootp, then use:

 >>>b ewa0 -fi remote-file

There is also an srmcons.pdf file which explains most of the SRM console
features and operations in better detail.  Try:
http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/info/semiconductor/literature/srmcons.pdf

cheers,
-bp
--
# bryan at terran dot org
# http://www.terran.org/~bryan