From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 13 8:19:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4380D37B43E for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 08:18:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05420; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:18:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g5DFIQq16937; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:18:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15624.47042.375518.197715@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:18:26 -0400 (EDT) To: ANTOINE Pierre Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 2100A Booting from Mini FreeBSD 4.5 ISO In-Reply-To: <3D088073.1000007@free.fr> References: <000001c212c9$b5e33cd0$0201a8c0@cartman> <3D088073.1000007@free.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (Please wrap your text at 72 columns) ANTOINE Pierre writes: > Hi all, > > Some banking company gave an AlphaServer 2100A to my school, and the > sysadmin ask me > to install a free OS on it. Debian can't boot. I've try Mini-Freebsd 4.5 > ISO booting CD > from the SRM. The loader go fine to a shell ("press enter to boot or a > key to shell") > but without changing anything, the boot freeze with an error message > about identification > after that. A 2100A should work fine, assuming all the hardware in the box is supported. Can you please describe the hardware more fully (transcribe the output of the command "show dev" at the SRM console prompt >>>). Also, please give the EXACT error message you see "about identification" A transcription of everything you see when the machine boots would be best. It would be easiest to get this using a serial console. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message