<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SRM Firmware Howto</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="About this manual" HREF="x11.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" >SRM Firmware Howto</A ></H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Rich Payne, and David Huggins-Daines</A ></H3 ><P CLASS="PUBDATE" >v0.8, 09 November 2000<BR></P ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN9" ></A ><P ></P ><P >This document describes how to boot Linux/Alpha using the SRM console, which is the console firmware also used to boot Compaq Tru64 Unix (also known as Digital Unix and OSF/1) and OpenVMS.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="x11.html" >About this manual</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="x11.html#AEN13" >Who should read this manual</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="x11.html#AEN19" >Conventions</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="x31.html" >What is SRM?</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="x31.html#AEN34" >Getting to SRM</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="x31.html#AEN48" >Using the SRM console</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="x31.html#HOW-SRM-BOOTS" >How Does SRM Boot an OS?</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="x31.html#AEN88" >Loading The Secondary Bootstrap Loader</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="x99.html" >SRM Device Naming</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="x99.html#AEN101" >The First Two Letter</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="x99.html#AEN130" >The Rest Of The Device Name</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="x162.html" >The Raw Loader</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="aboot.html" >The aboot Loader</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="aboot.html#AEN235" >Getting and Building aboot</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="aboot.html#AEN286" >Floppy Installation</A ></DT ><DT >5.3. <A HREF="aboot.html#AEN297" >Harddisk Installation</A ></DT ><DT >5.4. <A HREF="aboot.html#AEN317" >CD-ROM Installation</A ></DT ><DT >5.5. <A HREF="aboot.html#BUILDING-LINUX" >Building the Linux Kernel</A ></DT ><DT >5.6. <A HREF="aboot.html#BOOTING" >Booting Linux</A ></DT ><DT >5.7. <A HREF="aboot.html#DHCP-AND-BOOTPD-SERVER-SETUP" >Setting up a BOOTP capable server using DHCP</A ></DT ><DT >5.8. <A HREF="aboot.html#NETWORK-BOOTING" >Booting Over the Network</A ></DT ><DT >5.9. <A HREF="aboot.html#AEN624" >Partitioning Disks</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6. <A HREF="x661.html" >Sharing a Disk With DEC Unix</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >6.1. <A HREF="x661.html#AEN665" >Partitioning the disk</A ></DT ><DT >6.2. <A HREF="x661.html#AEN708" >Installing <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >aboot</TT ></A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >7. <A HREF="x733.html" >Installation of Distributions</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.1. <A HREF="x733.html#AEN735" >RedHat 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2</A ></DT ><DT >7.2. <A HREF="x733.html#AEN747" >SuSE 6.1</A ></DT ><DT >7.3. <A HREF="x733.html#AEN760" >SuSE 6.3</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >8. <A HREF="x768.html" >Document History</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x11.html" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >About this manual</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >