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After installing Linux, set boot environment variables appropriately for
3.
your installation. The typical values indicating booting from dka0 with the
first aboot.conf entry are shown in this example.
P00>>> set bootdef_dev dka0
P00>>> set boot_file
P00>>> set boot_osflags 0
P00>>> show boot*
boot_dev
boot_file
boot_osflags
boot_reset
bootdef_dev
booted_dev
booted_file
booted_osflags
4. From SRM enter the boot command. The following example shows
abbreviated boot output.
Example 6–5 Linux Boot Output
This example shows messages similar to what you will see when booting Linux.
The example is from a RedHat Linux 7.0 boot.
>>> boot
(boot dka0.0.0.8.0 -flags 0)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.8.0 is a valid boot block
reading 163 blocks from dka0.0.0.8.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 2d4000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 14600
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 7fff0000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.7
aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.87
aboot: booting from device 'SCSI 0 8 0 0 0 0 0'
aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
aboot: loading uncompressed vmlinuz-2.4.3-7privateer2smp...
aboot: loading compressed vmlinuz-2.4.3-7privateer2smp...
aboot: zero-filling 369720 bytes at 0xfffffc0000ce9400
aboot: starting kernel vmlinuz-2.4.3-7privateer2smp with arguments
root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyS0
Linux version 2.4.3-7privateer2smp (root@privateer) (gcc version
2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 SMP Thu May 24
11:01:14 EDT 2001
Booting GENERIC on Titan variation Privateer using machine vector
PRIVATEER from SRM
Command line: root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyS0
dka0.0.0.17.0
0
OFF
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