From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Sep 7 11: 2: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.webmailer.de (natmail2.webmailer.de [192.67.198.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F48037B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FOETZSTATION (p3E9E559D.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [62.158.85.157]) by post.webmailer.de (8.9.3/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA15477 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:01:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: webmaster@ah-network.de Message-ID: <000601bdda89$5d1d06c0$7f00a8c0@FOETZSTATION> To: Subject: Fw: alpha Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:00:13 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Baldwin" To: Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: Re: alpha > webmaster@ah-network.de wrote: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > dear daemons!! > > > > a few weeks ago i bought an alpha 21164. after a litte bit of researching i was able to "change" the bios into the srm console. > > but it did not work. everytime i booted with the 4.1 cd it stopped at the "jumping to bootstrap", and the system does not react but i can see the cube-like cursor at the left. i guess this is the point where normally the installation should start. the same with netbsd. suse 6.3+6.4 didn_t make any problems but i would much more like freebsd running on my system. what can i do?? > > here_s the system: > > 21164/533mhz/2mb cache > > lx164 > > 256mb/ecc > > 15gb maxtor/ide > > lg 48x/ide > > floppy!! > > matrox 2mb/svga > > i got the srm update from ftp.digital.com and directly from api_s homepage. my alpha-bios is 5.68-1 > > > > best regards g.fischer > > You probably want to ask about this on the freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org list. > However, are you sure you are telling SRM to boot from your CD and not > from the hard disk? > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message