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Operation 3-19

3. Ensure that the SRM console environment

sysvar

is set to

5

prior to

installing or booting Linux.

P00>>> set sysvar 5
P00>>> init

4. When switching back from Linux to Tru64 UNIX, verify that the SRM

console environment

sysvar

is equal to

12

.

P00>>> set sysvar 12
P00>>> init

5. After installing Linux, set boot environment variables appropriately for

your installation. The typical values indicating booting from dka0 with the
first aboot.conf entry are shown in this example.


P00>>> set bootdef_dev dkb0
P00>>> set boot_file
P00>>> set boot_osflags 0
P00>>> show boot*
boot_dev

dkb0.0.0.5.0

boot_file

boot_osflags

0

boot_reset

OFF

bootdef_dev

booted_dev

booted_file

booted_osflags

6. From SRM enter the boot command. Example 3–5 shows an abbreviated

boot output. This example shows messages similar to what you will see
when booting Linux. The example is from a RedHat Linux 7.0 boot.

Example 3– 5 Linux Boot Output

>>> boot
(boot dka0.0.0.8.0 -flags 0)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.8.0 is a valid boot block
reading 163 blocks from dka0.0.0.8.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 2d4000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 14600
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 7fff0000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
aboot: Linux/Alpha SRM bootloader version 0.7
aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.87
aboot: booting from device ’SCSI 0 8 0 0 0 0 0’