Alpha boot menu recovery

TravisBy · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2007 Posts: 69

I recently received an alphastation from a few friends (alphastation 500), and it already has Gentoo installed on it. I have no logins though, okay no problem, throw a new disc in, right?

I can't get the BIOs/ARC bootmenu to be able to change the boot order. Is there anything I can do to recover the password, or does anyone know how I can get it to boot from CD? It instantly goes from turn-on to booting Gentoo.

[edit] After much keyboard banging, I figured it out. Sorry everyone. esc, not ctrl + c on the blue screen.

Lupin_the_3rd · Apprentice Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 168

don't forget to change the autoboot srm variable.
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