"J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:36:34 +0100 (CET), Tamas TEVESZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, J.C. Roberts wrote: > > > > > (1) When booting the cd38.iso with either bsd or bsd.rd you go into UKC > > > rather than directly into the installation. I'm guessing this is normal > > > since I'm sure there might be some things that need doing for some of > > > the more esoteric alpha hardware but it's worth asking to make sure. > > > >you probably have a rogue `-s' in boot_osflags (try `show boot_osflags' > >or even `show boot*' in srm). > > Without an OS installed and booting from CD through the SRM the > INSTALL.alpha file suggests/requires overriding the both the SRM boot > file (-fi switch) and the SRM boot flags (-fl switch): > > >>>boot -fi bsd -fl ac dka0 > > Frightening... I added the "c" to the boot flags as instructed and > didn't even notice it. > > Eventually, the boot_osflags in the SRM needs to be set to "a" but the > default is "A" -The case would make no difference for some OS's but > OpenBSD probably won't like it. ;-)
SRM specification requires us to handle the flags equally, regardless of case.
