On June 30, 2003 12:36, Joerg Hoh wrote: > alpha:~# cat /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action > BOOT > alpha:~# echo "BOOT" > /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action > > the machine doesn't come back to the prompt; on the serial terminal I get > this:
Humm. I've tried it on a few different PW500a in our lab. Some of them take a long time before they come back (5min). Some come back right away (1s). Strange, because as far as I know, they are all identical machines. Maybe different firmware versions or something? The only time I locked on up was when I did: cat /proc/srm_environment/named_variales/boot_dev \ /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/bootdef_dev I assume this causes a deadlock in the module? I noticed that if you set stuff in the SRM environment, it doesn't add in a newline. One of our lab machines complains if you try and set any SRM variables with a newline on the end (the other ones don't seem to care). Maybe you should try: echo -n "BOOT" > /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada
