Re: 5000/200: ROM booting surprise

"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[email protected]> Sun, 31 Oct 2021 22:52:32 +0000 (GMT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sun, 31 Oct 2021, Mouse wrote:

> I've run into a surprise trying to boot my 5000/200.
> 
> >>boot 5/rz1/netbsd -sn
> ...works.
> 
> >>boot 5/rz1/netbsd -ns
> ...just reprompts, as if it had done nothing.
> 
> Does the ROM code impose some level of interpretation on the flags or
> something?

 Probably a bug/simplification in the REX command interpreter:

"boot [-zseconds] [-n] [bootpath] [-a] [args...]
[...]
* Include the optional -n parameter to have the boot
  command load, but not execute, the specified file."

 FWIW,

  Maciej