Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:36:04 +1000 (EST) From: MAX YEO <yc.yeo@student.qut.edu.au> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Need HELP on AlphaStation 200 freebsd installation. Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9911291301110.12477-100000@sparrow.qut.edu.au>
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Hi All, I have a Digital Alpha200 station planned to be install with FREEBSD OS. Firstly I am having the trouble of booting up at the main console, I used the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot up to begin the installation. Right after it boot up with the prompt of terminal selection where you have 4 choices, my keyboard give no response to the machine. Wonder why? Secondly, alternatively, i used a serial port connection terminal(VT320) to get the console prompt. I am able to boot up and begin with installation process. But the only thing is that I have the error message on installation which are from the documentation files where i presume that it do no harm to the installation process. Upon the end of installation process, where we suppose to put in root passwd, the process was skipped, due to unknown reason. I tried to reboot after the installation, but the OS does not even get boot up. here's ther error msg after I reboot: (boot dka0.0.0.6.0 -flags a) block 0 of dka0.0.0.6.0 is a valid boot block reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.6.0 bootstrap code read in base=if2000, image_start=0, image_bytes=1e00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 1e4000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code *** keyboard not plugged in ... Can't open file /boot/loader *** keyboard not plugged in ... halted CPU 0 halt code=5 HALT instruction executed PC=20000038 boot failure >>> So, how should i get the freebsd running? Do we need to update the alpha station firmware ? Thanks . max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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