From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 5 15:45:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECBA37B419 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 15:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from tamama (loonei.xs4all.nl [213.84.116.228]) by smtpzilla1.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with SMTP id fB5Nin1H048567; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:44:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00b301c17de6$fc63bef0$9600000a@tamama> From: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" To: "Wilko Bulte" Cc: References: <008301c17de4$c0019830$9600000a@tamama> <20011206003138.C8067@freebie.xs4all.nl> Subject: Re: Got an Alpha 21066 rev 2 hardware rev 1, how to get to SRM? Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 00:45:56 +0100 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 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 Thank you for the reply, Unfortunately, there is no Unix operating system there.. the only OS I can select is Windows NT. Kind of funny.. I can select NT or an alternate.. and I can only select NT in the alternate .. heh. The board sticker has this: 54-23310-05 ay43602768 C02 There is some info with a picture on this page (it is not mine) I found using google: http://joyce.questier.com/joyce.html Obviously the rand-hardware is not what i have but the picture of the board is exactly the same as mine. The firmware tells me there is 512bytes used out of 3kb of the NVRAM. I Hope this info will help you help me :-) Floris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wilko Bulte" To: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:31 AM Subject: Re: Got an Alpha 21066 rev 2 hardware rev 1, how to get to SRM? > On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:29:52AM +0100, Floris 'Tamama' van Gog wrote: > > > 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 :-) > > Yes.. you need to get to the supplementary menu, and select Operating > System 'Unix' there. Then power cycle the box. This should give you the > SRM > > I would also like to know what kind of board you have. Please describe > it, and/or find the Digital part# for it (something like 54-xxxxx-xx > on a sticker on the board) > > Wilko > > -- > | / o / /_ _ email: wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message