Subject: Re: boot pain
To: Joel N. Weber II <nemo@gratuitous.org>
From: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/20/1999 15:57:49
> Is there documentation in a convienet form somewhere that would tell
> me what command I need to boot off of the SCSI disk with ID 5? `boot
> DKA0' works to boot off the first disk with the firmware on the
> machine I have.
It probably depends upon what particular platform you are using.
For the modern machines, try doing a "show dev" at the >>> prompt.
I think that lists all the devices you can boot from. One column
will have the obvious magic word to use with the boot command.
My guess would be DKA500