From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 13:39:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA1837B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 13:39:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bonsai.knology.net (user-24-214-88-8.knology.net [24.214.88.8]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9CKda713346 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:39:36 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.knology.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) id e9CKdan70685 for alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:39:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from steve) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 15:39:36 -0500 From: Steve Price To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: AlphaServer 1000A Message-ID: <20001012153936.U29088@bonsai.knology.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi all, My father-in-law just dropped an AlphaServer 1000A by the house that he wants me to install FreeBSD on. Question is how do I get it to drop to the console? I've downloaded the firmware update from DEC, put it on a DOS floppy, and named the file fwupdate.exe but the box insists on booting from dka0 and into OpenVMS despite my best efforts. Thanks for any and all enlightenment. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message