Operating instructions

3. After installing Linux, set boot environment variables to configure boot pa-
rameters for Red Hat, SuSE, or TurboLinux. This example shows settings
for booting from the system hard drive (dka0).
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 abbre-
viated boot output.
Example 3–4 Linux Boot Output
P00>>> b dka0 -fl 1
(boot dka0.0.0.1.2 -flags 1)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.1.2 is a valid boot block
reading 172 blocks from dka0.0.0.1.2
bootstrap code read in
base = 314000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 15800(88064)
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 5fff0000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9a
aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.90
aboot: booting from device ’SCSI 2 1 0 0 0 0 0’
aboot: valid disklabel found: 3 partitions.
aboot: loading uncompressed vmlinuz-2.4.9-32...
aboot: loading compressed vmlinuz-2.4.9-32...
aboot: zero-filling 498376 bytes at 0xfffffc0000b4e1b8
aboot: loading initrd (709138 bytes/692 blocks) at 0xfffffc005fe0e000
aboot: starting kernel vmlinuz-2.4.9-32 with arguments root=/dev/sda2 console0
Linux version 2.4.9-32 ([e-mail]) (gcc version 2.96 202
Booting GENERIC on Titan variation Granite using machine vector PRIVATEER from M
Command line: root=/dev/sda2 console=ttyS0
memcluster 0, usage 1, start 0, end 394
memcluster 1, usage 0, start 394, end 196599
memcluster 2, usage 1, start 196599, end 196608
freeing pages 394:1024
freeing pages 1510:196599
reserving pages 1510:1513
Initial ramdisk at: 0xfffffc005fe0e000 (709138 bytes)
On node 0 totalpages: 196599
zone(0): 196599 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
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