There's a couple of ways....do they have halt buttons? If so try pressing
those. Failing that try CTRL-X and CTRL-C when SRM starts. That should
interupt them (you may need to type them several times!). Then you can:
set auto_action halt
(at least that's what it is on the newer machines).
--rdp
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Drew Thompson 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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