[Cialug] Alpha - aboot question

[Nathan C. Smith]

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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