Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:29:52 +0100 From: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" <floris@vangog.net> To: <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Got an Alpha 21066 rev 2 hardware rev 1, how to get to SRM? Message-ID: <008301c17de4$c0019830$9600000a@tamama>
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Hi, I recently received an Alpha motherboard with CPU and memory from a friend. I stuffed it in an AT case, attached a SCSI HDD and cdrom to it, added a Matrox Millenium 1 to it and booted. It comes in this: -------- Alpha Firmware Version 4.42 Copyright(c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corporation Copyright(c) 1993-1995 Ditigal Equipment Corporation Boot menu: Boot Windows NT Boot an alternate operating system Run a program Supplemantary menu --------- The machine previously ran Linux redhat, but since i didnt get an harddisk to go with it, it can't boot it :-) Now as I have never even seen an Alpha in my life, I am sort of puzzled. The FreeBSD install guide keeps talking about an SRM prompt and all that... but I don't seem to have it at all! Argh this is frustrating :-) Any help to get to that SRM prompt is greatly appreciated. Floris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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