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Ulf Carlsson writes:
 > On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 04:01:48AM +0200, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
 > > On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 09:46:59PM +0200, Ulf Carlsson wrote:
 > > 
 > > bootp() is just a ARC filename which is either interpreted by the PROM
 > > command interpreter or by sash where sash afaik is nothing other than the
 > > PROMs compiled with special flags.
 > 
 > The command 'boot bootp():' requires a harddrive, but I can run 'bootp():'
 > diskless. Does the 'boot' part of the command tell the PROM to use sash?

      Try

	boot -f bootp():

This avoids trying to load sash.