[Cialug] Alpha - aboot question

[dave at visionary.com]

Now you're asking hard questions... probably a server of some sort.

-dc

On Sat, Sep 3, 2005, "Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com> said:

> What "ultimately" will you do with it?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dave at visionary.com [mailto:dave at visionary.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 2:15 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Alpha - aboot question
> 
> 
> On Sat, Sep 3, 2005, dave at visionary.com said:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2005, Academician Kula <kula at tproa.net> said:
>> 
>>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:19:47PM -0000, dave at visionary.com wrote:
>>>> This is the syntax you're talking about:
>>>> 
>>>> >>>boot dka0 -flags 0
>>>> 
>>>> but that only works once... (it bypasses the aboot menu, which is 
>>>> what I want). The next time I reboot, it stops at the aboot menu 
>>>> again.
>>>> 
>>>> Is there a way to write that as the default?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Take a look at the SRM variables
>>> 
>>>  bootdef_dev - the device from which to boot
>>>  boot_file - the default file to load on boot
>>>  boot_osflags - the flags to pass on boot    
>>> 
>>> You can change them with
>>> 
>>>  set varname varvalue
>>> 
>>> at the bios prompt.
>> 
>> That's the ticket. Thanks.
> 
> BTW, I got the video card working in X too... just did an x86config, and
> chose "Elsa Gloria Synergy", and it worked.
> 
> I put a 2nd 9gb SCSI drive in it, I may put a sound card in it now. :)
> 
> -dc
> 
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