> Hello Dave, Thank you that was the trick .
No problemo.
> I've one more question, I have an AS200 4/100 an Avanti (style)
> system . I am looking to be able to boot remotely to my newly
> created image , I am a -few- miles away . Milo & linload have
> been installed on a FAT filesystem . I can mount it & write to
> it , but I can't find -any- (I mean any) documentation on how
> to remotely set var's into the systems memory for reboot.
>
> I guess what I am looking for is something like the SunOS reboot
> command 'reboot "sda1:vmlinux.gz-21115 root=/dev/sda1"'
Rebooting machines at a long distance always makes me nervous - what do
you do when a kernel just doesn't work?
To be honest my soloution would be to take a 386 and hook it onto the
serial port of your Alpha and have something wired accross the reset
on the alpha from the 386.
Now do everything by accessing the 386 over the serial port - this means
you can even remotely reset the alpha if the kernel screws up.
(That was the simultaneously nice and annoying thing about Suns, the way
you could bring them back to the monitor with a Break on the serial port).
And heck, you can probably persuade someone to give you a 386 presently
being used as a door stop somewhere.
Dave
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