From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Sep 13 15:44:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from eta.ghs.com (eta.ghs.com [208.8.104.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA7DB14D5D for ; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:44:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ross@teraflop.com) Received: [from random.teraflop.com (random.teraflop.com [192.67.158.207]) by eta.ghs.com (eta-antispam 0.2) with ESMTP id PAA12855; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:44:17 -0700 (PDT)] Received: (from ross@localhost) by random.teraflop.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17557; Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 15:44:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Harvey Message-Id: <199909132244.PAA17557@random.teraflop.com> To: andrew@python.shoal.net.au, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD on a DECpc AXP 150 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > From: Andrew Perry > > I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I have searched the archives > and can't find an answer. > > How do I install FreeBSD on my AXP150? I have a working boot diskette that > I have tested on another box and FreeBSD 3.2. > I've been told that this model alpha won't boot from the diskette, I've > tried boot dva0 but just get a message "?84 fail". > > Any suggestions? > Andrew Perry > > ps: please include me in the responses as I am not subscribed to the list. Oh my, you have a Jensen, and right, SRM for some wierd reason can't boot from a floppy on that thing, so you have to jump through some hoops to load a kernel. However, NetBSD didn't (and doesn't) support the Jensen, so there was no platform-specific code for FreeBSD to import... I've recently built a Jensen from random parts, however, so I hope to fix this (at least for NetBSD) soon. ross.harvey@computer.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message