Do the machines have a 'halt' button on them? On my Personal
Workstation this is a button to the right on the power switch and
power and hdd leds. On my AlphaServer 1000A's it's the rightmost
button, next to the reset and power buttons. Note that the button may
not be responsive during all portions of the boot cycle. Just keep
pressing it every few seconds until you drop to the console :-)
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 11:04:12AM -0400, Drew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> My group has just taken posession of about a dozen AlphaStation
> 500's, which currently have Digital Unix installed with unknown
> passwords. I'm trying to install Linux on them (and unfortunately
> also NT on a few :-( ), but I can't seem to break out of the boot
> routine to get to the BIOS or SRM console so I can boot from
> another source...I've read a few of the AlphaLinux HOWTO's, but
> they all seem to assume that part is easy. Once I can get there
> I should be fine...I was a VAX sysadmin for a few years and most
> of the HOWTO's looked hauntingly familiar...but any help on the
> "easy" part would be appreciated. :-) As I seem not to have
> said explicitly, all we got were the actual machines, no docs,
> no idea what's been done to them. Oh we also got 8 600's, but
> I'm hoping they'll respond similarly to any suggestions that
> are made. Thanks for any suggestions you can provide...
>
> --Drew Thompson
>
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