Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:16:14 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AlphaServer 1000A Message-ID: <20001012231614.B20816@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <14822.9055.232569.714864@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:50:04PM -0400 References: <20001012153936.U29088@bonsai.knology.net> <14822.9055.232569.714864@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:50:04PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Steve Price writes: > > 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. > > If its running VMS that means you've got the SRM console and you > probably don't need to bother w/a firmware update. > > There's a couple of ways to get to the console: > > - Look for a halt button & press it. Which is marked with a symbol resembling the STOP sign used on the road (triangle upside down) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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