From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 5 10:42:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1517437B405 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 10:42:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from tamama (loonei.xs4all.nl [213.84.116.228]) by smtpzilla2.xs4all.nl (8.12.0/8.12.0) with SMTP id fB5IgsJf014096 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:42:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <00d201c17dbc$cec0ccb0$9600000a@tamama> From: "Floris 'Tamama' van Gog" To: Subject: Got an Alpha 21066 rev 2.. now what? Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:44:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I recently received an Alpha motherboard with CPU and memory from a friend. I stuffed it in an AT case, attached a SCSI HDD and cdrom to it, added a Matrox Millenium 1 to it and booted. It comes in this: -------- Alpha Firmware Version 4.42 Copyright(c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corporation Copyright(c) 1993-1995 Ditigal Equipment Corporation Boot menu: Boot Windows NT Boot an alternate operating system Run a program Supplemantary menu --------- The machine previously ran Linux redhat, but since i didnt get an harddisk to go with it, it can't boot it :-) Now as I have never even seen an Alpha in my life, I am sort of puzzled. The FreeBSD install guide keeps talking about an SRM prompt and all that... but I don't seem to have it at all! Argh this is frustrating :-) Any help to get to that SRM prompt is greatly appreciated. Floris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message