how to boot a file different from /unix ?
Ted Wilcox
ted at vball.sgi.com
Tue Jul 31 07:42:44 AEST 1990
In <1990Jul29.201238.846 at urz.unibas.ch> doelz at urz.unibas.ch writes:
>The only thing which puzzles me is that I am getting in trouble
>with the panic messages if I accidentially did something wrong.
>The machine dies, and hangs, without RESET being active... I
>need to power off the machine in order to get the PROM prompt.
>I then load the inst, spawn a sh and rename my save file to /root/unix
>in order to be able to boot.
Ouch!
>Question: In early versions of PROM, there was a hint how to boot a
>different file than /unix on the system disk. I didn't find that info
>somewhere now in the current documentation (3.3).
>How to boot a file other than /unix ?
When you're in the prom menu (the 5 buttons) select option 5 (Enter Command
Monitor).
When you're at the ">>" prompt, tell the system to boot the file that
you have saved. For example if you have a scsi root disk, and your
saved unix file is called unix.sav, type:
>>boot dksc(0,1,0)/unix.sav
The dksc means use a scsi device, the first 0 means controller 0,
the 1 means device 1 (the default main disk), and the last 0 means
partition 0 (SGI's default root partition).
>Merci
>Reinhard
De rien. (I think that's right.)
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