Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B User Manual (English)

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3-20 ES45 Owner's Guide

3. After installing Linux, set boot environment variables appropriately for

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 dka0.0.0.17.0

boot_file

boot_osflags 0

boot_reset OFF

bootdef_dev

booted_dev

booted_file

booted_osflags

4. From SRM enter the boot command. The following example shows an ab-

breviated boot output.

Example 3–4 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 800000'

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 argu-

ments root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyS0

Linux version 2.4.3-7privateer2smp (root@privateer) (gcc ver-

sion 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-85)) #1 SMP Thu May

24 11:01:14 EDT 2001

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Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B Specifications

General

Processor Speed	1 GHz
Memory	Up to 32 GB
Memory Type	DDR SDRAM
Expansion Slots	6 PCI slots
Network	Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Operating System	Tru64 UNIX, OpenVMS
Form Factor	Rackmount
Processor	Alpha EV68
Chipset	Tsunami chipset
Storage	Up to 6 hot-swap SCSI drives
I/O Slots	6 PCI slots
Power Supply	Redundant hot-swap power supplies