Quoting Dennis Chernoivanov <cdi@mawhrin.net>:

> 
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:54:42PM -0500, Dale P. Smith wrote:
> > The system is using a bootloader.  Is there any way to get a bootloader
> > prompt to pick which kernel to use?
> 
>  It should take a switch of the form "nbsd=<dev>:<kernel>". You may specify
> it
> at the PROM prompt by typing something like
> 
> boot: /boot/boot.gz nbsd=wd0a:netbsd.gz

Thanks! That helped a lot.  Here is what I found boot's the default kernel at
the PROM "Cobalt: " prompt:

Cobalt: bfd /boot/boot.gz nbsd=wd0a:netbsd
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Decompressing -- done.

>> NetBSD/cobalt 1.6U Bootloader, Revision 0.1 [@0x81000000]
>> (cdi@merlin.camelot.net, Fri Jun 27 20:23:25 CEST 2003)
>> Memory:              65536 k
>> PROM boot string:    root=/dev/hda1 ro nbsd=wd0a:netbsd 



What other options are there? I can't seem to find any manpages that cover this
command.

Thanks Again!
  -Dale

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