At Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:32:03 +1100, J A Barton wrote: > Firstly, the date. When checked from the srm console the date is > correct, however from debian.. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ date > Sun Mar 29 11:29:11 EST 2065 > ^^^?--------------------^^^^???? > does anyone have any ideas other than forcing the date back 20yrs and a day?
if you're using a 2.2 kernel, try a 2.4 one. i found 2.4 had much fewer quirks on my multia. > And finally, the petty question... Is there anyway of shortening the > keystrokes to boot into debian? I have set the options from the srm > console, so that a simple >>>>boot will boot the harddrive, but then i > get an aboot> prompt to pick a kernel, and seeing as i have only the > one, it seems a bit pointless. > ( ideally i want this to be headless, so few / none keys to boot would > be better ) i have mine booting (from srm/aboot) without needing a keypress. i can't remember how though ;) you can pass aboot some arguments to skip the aboot prompt, and you can specify those arguments in an srm variable somewhere. iirc to go straight into booting, i had to modify one of the srm startup scripts. i remember it being reasonably straightforward once i started poking around the srm "filesystem". -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
