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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.ultrix
Subject: Re: Booting a DECsystem 5000
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.200853.22655@decuac.dec.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 20:08:53 GMT
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In article <1990Sep26.183304.14449@ox.com> osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd) writes:
>?STX: boot [many options, none of them -f]

in Rev 5.3C firmware (latest I've seen), some commands have changed.

        boot -f tz(0,5)
         is now
        boot 5/tz5
  
        setenv bootpath rz(0,0,0)vmunix
         is now
        setenv boot "5/rz0/vmunix -a"
 
a document detailing this is available for FTP from decuac in:
~ftp/public/postscript/DS5000_console_command_comparison.ps

mjr.