From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 28 16:40:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from srv1.cosmo-project.de (srv1.cosmo-project.de [213.83.6.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56C3937B41D for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by srv1.cosmo-project.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with UUCP id g210eGL37822; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:40:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by cicely5.cicely.de (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g210bXYd045298; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:37:33 +0100 (CET)?g (envelope-from ticso@cicely8.cicely.de) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g210bWo12583; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:37:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:37:30 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Steven Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 SCSI woes Message-ID: <20020301003729.GC11453@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <008f01c1c0b8$4bdee9a0$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <008f01c1c0b8$4bdee9a0$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.26i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD cicely8.cicely.de 5.0-CURRENT i386 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 On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:30:31AM -0000, Steven wrote: > Hi, > > My machine is an AlphaStation 200 (200 4/233 with 192 meg RAM) > > I posted a questions to freebsd-questions earlier this evening (to which i > had no replies). I appologise if this is the wrong mailing to be using, but > I have been finding it really hard to find any information relevant to my > hardware. The original problem was about booting from the 4.5 alpha cd > (namely the keyboard stops working when the terminal type menu comes up). > Searches on google and reading the hardware.txt file were of no help. > Finally I found the archieves for this list and know now its because of my > graphics card not being supported. IMHO it would be *really* useful to > mention this in the hardware file. Although I have learnt a fair bit about > my system in the past 6 hours whilst trying to figure it out, other people > might just give up. It looks like sysinstall gets confused by the old disk content. If you zero out the first blocks you should be able to install. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message