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>SRM Firmware Howto</TITLE
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"><LINK
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CLASS="TITLE"
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NAME="AEN2"
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>SRM Firmware Howto</A
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CLASS="AUTHOR"
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NAME="AEN4"
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>Rich Payne,
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and David Huggins-Daines</A
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><P
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CLASS="PUBDATE"
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>v0.8, 09 November 2000<BR></P
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CLASS="ABSTRACT"
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NAME="AEN9"
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>This document describes how to boot Linux/Alpha using the SRM console,
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which is the console firmware also used to boot Compaq Tru64 Unix
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(also known as Digital Unix and OSF/1) and OpenVMS.</P
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CLASS="TOC"
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><B
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>Table of Contents</B
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><DT
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>1. <A
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HREF="x11.html"
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>About this manual</A
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><DD
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><DL
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><DT
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="x11.html#AEN13"
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>Who should read this manual</A
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><DT
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="x11.html#AEN19"
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>Conventions</A
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><DT
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>2. <A
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HREF="x31.html"
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>What is SRM?</A
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="x31.html#AEN34"
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>Getting to SRM</A
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><DT
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="x31.html#AEN48"
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>Using the SRM console</A
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><DT
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>2.3. <A
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HREF="x31.html#HOW-SRM-BOOTS"
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>How Does SRM Boot an OS?</A
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></DT
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>2.4. <A
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HREF="x31.html#AEN88"
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>Loading The Secondary Bootstrap Loader</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>3. <A
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HREF="x99.html"
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>SRM Device Naming</A
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><DD
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><DT
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>3.1. <A
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HREF="x99.html#AEN101"
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>The First Two Letter</A
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>3.2. <A
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HREF="x99.html#AEN130"
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>The Rest Of The Device Name</A
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></DD
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><DT
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>4. <A
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HREF="x162.html"
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>The Raw Loader</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>5. <A
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HREF="aboot.html"
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>The aboot Loader</A
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><DD
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><DL
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><DT
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>5.1. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#AEN235"
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>Getting and Building aboot</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>5.2. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#AEN286"
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>Floppy Installation</A
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><DT
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>5.3. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#AEN297"
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>Harddisk Installation</A
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><DT
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>5.4. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#AEN317"
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>CD-ROM Installation</A
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>5.5. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#BUILDING-LINUX"
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>Building the Linux Kernel</A
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><DT
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>5.6. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#BOOTING"
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>Booting Linux</A
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>5.7. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#DHCP-AND-BOOTPD-SERVER-SETUP"
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>Setting up a BOOTP capable server using DHCP</A
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></DT
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>5.8. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#NETWORK-BOOTING"
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>Booting Over the Network</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>5.9. <A
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HREF="aboot.html#AEN624"
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>Partitioning Disks</A
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></DT
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><DT
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>6. <A
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HREF="x661.html"
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>Sharing a Disk With DEC Unix</A
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>6.1. <A
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HREF="x661.html#AEN665"
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>Partitioning the disk</A
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>6.2. <A
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>Installing <TT
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CLASS="LITERAL"
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>aboot</TT
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><DT
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>7. <A
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>Installation of Distributions</A
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>7.1. <A
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>RedHat 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2</A
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>SuSE 6.1</A
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>Document History</A
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