[Cialug] Alpha - aboot question

[Academician Kula]

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.

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