Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:56:56 -0700 From: Adam Kranzel <adam@blacktabby.org> To: "Anthony O'Meara" <atom@atom.no-ip.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAID controller problem on Digital Server 5305 Message-ID: <200308052156.56451.adam@blacktabby.org> In-Reply-To: <000d01c35890$b9a614b0$1f00a8c0@colorite.co.nz> References: <002301c357d2$7881d870$1f00a8c0@colorite.co.nz> <200308010708.09281.adam@blacktabby.org> <000d01c35890$b9a614b0$1f00a8c0@colorite.co.nz>
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On Friday 01 August 2003 17:55, you wrote: > Hi, > > I have tried what you suggest and it asks to insert a disk for addition > modules BUT when I press enter it says it cant find any floppy drives, but > I just boot the setup from the floppy drive. Any ideas? > > Thanks > Anthony I remember having problems with this, but I can't remember what I did to fix them. It's probably easiest just to boot off a cdrom, if that's possible for you. Download the 'cdboot.iso' image via ftp from current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/, burn it to a cd, and then 'boot dka500' (or similar, see the 'show dev' output from the SRM >>> prompt), should boot off the cd with no problems. CD installs are *far* easier on on Alpha, to the point that floppy-boot installs have been deprectated in 5.1-CURRENT as of a few weeks ago. You could also boot off a floppy and load the mlx module from a cd, I suppose, but I've not tried that. -Adam
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