Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B User Manual

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

Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B Specifications

General

Brand	Compaq
Model	AlphaServer ES45 1B
Category	Server
Language	English