More... Re: VS4000 hardware questions

From: Michael Schneider <ms_at_silke.rt.schwaben.de>
Date: Tue Dec 25 13:38:50 2001

For online doc's, take this:

http://www.whiteice.com/~williamwebb/intro/DOC-i.html

Ok, it's for a 3100/76, but the instructions are fairly accurate and, as
far as i can tell, valid for 4000/60 systems.

ms

On Tue, 2001-12-25 at 00:25, Doc wrote:
> On 24 Dec 2001, Michael Schneider wrote:
>
> > To get the 4000/60 autobooting you have to have
> >
> > SET BOOT dka0 (or whatever your system disk is)
> > SET HALT 1
> > SET BFLG 0
> >
> > Most NetBSD's up to 1.5.2 garble the "HALT" setting on shutdown, so you
> > should check this ("SHOW HALT"). Valid values are:
> >
> > 3: Machine halts on powerup (Manual boot)
> > 2: Automatic reboot
> > 1: Automatic restart
> > 0: same as 2
>
> Ah-hah! This one has HALT set to 3. I haven't found any docs or online
> info
> about the nvram settings or post messages.
> Thanks, I'll try this.
>
> Doc
>
>
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