(Some people claim to have luck with madly hitting CTRL-C before it starts booting - but I've never had that work.)
Once in SRM, you need to do "set auto_action halt", this should then make sure that the next time you start up, you end up at the SRM prompt and can then follow all the usual directions of how to boot off of CD.
- Rob
Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote:
Oliver:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Oliver Kiddle wrote:
> We've got an old Alphastation 255 and wanted to install Debian on it. I > downloaded rc3 of the new installer and burnt it to CD. Trouble is that > it doesn't automatically boot from the CD. When I turn the machine on, > it goes straight into OpenVMS. I can see the boot command on the console > but it never stops with a prompt. Is there some key combination I need > to prevent it booting from the hard disc? >
Did you specify the cdrom device on your boot command line at the console?
If you just did 'b' in response to the console prompt, the alpha boots from the device in the environment variable 'bootdef_dev', which is probably your VMS system disk.
Toni
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