Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B User Manual

Booting and Installing an Operating System 3-7
Linux Systems
If aboot.conf contains (0: 1/vmlinux.gz ro root=/dev/sda2), the system can be
booted by one of the following methods:
1.
set boot_file
set boot_osflags 0
boot dka0
---or---
2.
boot dka0 -file "" -flags 0
---or---
3.
set boot_file 1/vmlinuz.gz
set boot_osflags "ro root=/dev/sda2"
boot dka0
Example
Single-user mode is typically used for troubleshooting. To make system changes
at this run level, you must have read/write privileges. The command to boot
Linux into single-user mode is similar to the following example, where “/” root is
in partition 2 of dka0, and the kernel is in /boot/compaq.gz.
P00>>> boot –file “1/vmlinux.gz” –flags “root=/dev/sda2 rw single”
Example
This following command sets the boot_osflags environment variable for Linux:
P00>>> set boot_osflags 0

Compaq AlphaServer ES45 1B Specifications

General

Brand	Compaq
Model	AlphaServer ES45 1B
Category	Server
Language	English