From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 7 10:22:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7538437B422 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA06164; Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:22:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009071722.KAA06164@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: alpha In-Reply-To: <000a01bdda7e$d684be00$7f00a8c0@FOETZSTATION> from "webmaster@ah-network.de" at "Sep 7, 1998 06:44:49 pm" To: webmaster@ah-network.de Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG webmaster@ah-network.de wrote: [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > dear daemons!! > > a few weeks ago i bought an alpha 21164. after a litte bit of researching i was able to "change" the bios into the srm console. > but it did not work. everytime i booted with the 4.1 cd it stopped at the "jumping to bootstrap", and the system does not react but i can see the cube-like cursor at the left. i guess this is the point where normally the installation should start. the same with netbsd. suse 6.3+6.4 didn_t make any problems but i would much more like freebsd running on my system. what can i do?? > here_s the system: > 21164/533mhz/2mb cache > lx164 > 256mb/ecc > 15gb maxtor/ide > lg 48x/ide > floppy!! > matrox 2mb/svga > i got the srm update from ftp.digital.com and directly from api_s homepage. my alpha-bios is 5.68-1 > > best regards g.fischer You probably want to ask about this on the freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org list. However, are you sure you are telling SRM to boot from your CD and not from the hard disk? -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message