Hi everyone,
I believe the INSTALL file is lacking one piece of information; How to
make SRM automatically boot Slack.
I propose that something like the text below be added to section 5 of the
INSTALL document.
What do you think?
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Configuring the SRM console to auto-boot the system is actually quite
easy, all you need to do is set 4 SRM variables. The variables you need
to set are:
boot_file
boot_osflags
bootdef_dev
auto_action
To set an SRM variable enter it like this at the console:
set VariableName VariableValue
In most cases you will probably want to set it like this (edit to fit
your machine):
set boot_file vmlinux.gz
set boot_osflags root=/dev/sda1
set bootdef_dev dka0
set auto_action BOOT
The first variable "boot_file" sets the name of the kernel to boot. The
second "boot_osflags" defines the flags to pass to the kernel when
booting - in this case only the name of the root filesystem, but you
could add more kernel parameters if needed. The third variable
"bootdef_dev" specifies the name of the default boot device (using the
SRM naming scheme) dka0 is the name of the first SCSI harddrive (to boot
from floppy use dva0, type show dev to see a complete list of all SRM
devices). The last variable "auto_action" tells the SRM console what to
do when booting, possile values are BOOT or HALT - boot wil auto-boot the
OS (which is what you probably want) and HALT will drop you to an SRM prompt.
After setting the variables you can just type boot at the SRM prompt to
boot Linux with the values defined in the variables.
If you configured them correctly it should now boot perfectly. If you set
”auto_action” to BOOT, the machine should be able to boot without any
user intervention.
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/Jesper Juhl
juhl@eisenstein.dk
http://jesper.staff.groundcontrol.dk/
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