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From: dwatts@ki.UUCP (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: how to boot a file different from /unix ?
Message-ID: <825@ki.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 90 21:25:45 GMT
References: <1990Jul29.201238.846@urz.unibas.ch>
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In article <1990Jul29.201238.846@urz.unibas.ch> doelz@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>
>Question: In early versions of PROM, there was a hint how to boot a 
>different file than /unix on the system disk. I didn't find that info 
>somewhere now in the current documentation (3.3). 
>How to boot a file other than /unix ? 
>
>Merci 
>Reinhard 

See page 2-14 of "IRIS-4D System Administrator's Guide".
To boot from a SCSI disk, I use:

 boot dksc(0,1,0)unix.test

I too spent quite a while once trying to figure out how to do this.
Sure would be nice if there was a _real_ index for all these #!#?
manuals.
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