Whoever it was the one that stated you could download the Intel Ontap kernel to an Alpha box is correct. I have done this 4 times now, where I download the Intel version of Ontap to an F760, halt the filer, swap heads, then boot. It does work exactly that way.
~JK
Chris Thompson wrote:
taob@risc.org (Brian Tao) writes:
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Todd Phillips wrote:
Basically, all you do is an OnTap upgrade. Just unzip the new system files, not the boot disks, in the /etc directory, enter "download", halt the Filer. Swap heads and boot up.
So it is possible to install the Intel kernel (for the F840) on anAlpha system (the F740) and have it write the Intel bootblocks to disk? Is this officially supported? It sure would be nice to skip the interim floppy boot stage when swapping filer heads.
No, I think Todd is wrong here and Jay was right in saying that you need to create and use floppies. "download" will use /etc/boot/*-alpha if it's running on an alpha box and /etc/boot/*-x86 if it's running on an intel one.
Maybe by foul means you could fool it into copying the "wrong" files to the boot area, but this would be burning your boats in a big way. If the new head fails to work, you would no longer be able to retreat to the old one except by booting from floppy --- and if you're prepared to do that, what's the big deal about making new ones?
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