Subject: Re: On the verge of ...
To: None <port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/08/1996 10:09:04
>>      Boot le(0,0,0) -a
>                       ^ Would you know what -a is supposed to do?

It gets passed to the bootblock.  The NetBSD bootblocks, and the SunOS
ones too I think, interpret -a as indicating that the bootblock should
(a) prompt the user to ask what to boot from and (b) pass -a on to the
booted kernel.  The NetBSD kernel takes -a as indicating something
similar, that it should prompt the user for where root and swap should
be, rather than using its defaults deduced from the boot device.

In short, it means "ask": ask for what to boot and where to put
root/swap.

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu