Though there may be other ways to break in and stop the boot and an 
Alphastation 500 I guess you could unplug the SCSI cable connecting the 
disk and go from there. The boot process should fail when the disk isn't 
found. Then set auto_action to HALT instead.

Anyone with any other ideas???

Cheers,
Anders


On Wed, 23 May 2007, Mark Ter Morshuizen wrote:

> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 21:49:58 +0200
> From: Mark Ter Morshuizen <mark@itbox.co.za>
> To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: Breaking into SRM on an Alphastation 500
> 
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the O/T post.
>
> I just got a pair on Alphastation 500's to play with. They both run Tru 64 and
> the srm auto_action is set to boot. I can't  figure out how to cancel the
> boot. On my other alphas Ctrl-C does the trick but on these it seems to have
> no effect. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Mark Ter Morshuizen
> 2U Rackmount Casings: http://www.rackmount.co.za
>

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