Re: Starting FreeBSD from AlphaBIOS

"Ruzsinszky Attila" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Ummm... So you already have SRM loaded and it is the default firmware?
Yes.

> If yes, have a look at the FreeBSD handbook[1] and/or the alpha
> installation instructions for your release of choice (e.g. [2] for
> 6.2R) for ways to boot your machine and to install FreeBSD on it,
> respectively.
FreeBSD is running. I think you don't understand my problem.

RAID firmware is on the floppy disk.
How can I start it from SRM? I don't know. filename is: ra200rcu.exe

If I want to configure my RAID controller I have to start AlphaBIOS from SRM.
It is not problem.
>From the AlphaBIOS I can start the named file from the floppy. It is all right.
When I finish my work with RAID controller I exit from RCU sw. I will be
again in AlphaBIOS. How can I go back to SRM without pusing the RESET
button? (I'm on the serial console which is connected to a terminal server.)
How can I reset the machine in this state like init in SRM?
That is the problem.

SRM is a must because on the other disks there are a VMS, NetBSD and
I want to choose among them.

TIA,
Ruzsi
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