[Cialug] Alpha - aboot question

[Dave Weis]

At that prompt hit help, there is a write command or something I thought.

On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, 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?
>
> -dc
>
> On Fri, Sep 2, 2005, Chris Hilton <chris129 at cs.iastate.edu> said:
>
>> I take it this is the bios cli?
>> You need to set the default boot (I forget exactly how) to `boot -flags
>> 0` I believe.
>> help boot
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 23:34 +0000, dave at visionary.com wrote:
>>> As I mentioned previously I have Debian Sarge running on my new
>>> AlphaServer. It's booting with the aboot loader, but when it boots I have
>>> to manually select the kernel image to boot (just hit 0 & enter). Is there
>>> a way to make aboot start that automatically, or do I need to install milo
>>> if I want to get all fancy like that?
>>>
>>> -dc
>>>
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