Following up on that, how do you boot from different partitions?
If i was doing an upgrade and needed to boot from the sd0b instead of sd0a,
where does one do that?

Thanks

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Sommerfeld" <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
To: "Matthew Cordes" <mcorde61@maine.edu>
Cc: <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: Specificying kernel at boot


> > How do I specify which kernel to use at boot.  I understand
> > I need to type "boot myKernel -s", but it is unclear where I
> > type this. While booting on my dec 3000 there is never a pause
> > and prompt for this sort of info (ala lilo/grub).  Any sugestions?
>
> type ^C (control-C) before it starts loading the kernel to get to the
> SRM prompt, which is ">>>"
>
> for SRM, you'll actually need to type
>
> boot -fi myKernel -fl s
>
> there's reasonable on-line help in SRM (with the "help" command);
> "set" and "show" let you change and view SRM variables.
>
> - Bill
>
>
>