From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 18:10:56 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC5716A421 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:10:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B498F13C459 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:10:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ntarmos@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419B4EB473E for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:13 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12C1115872F for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:13 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BjPhwv0tPQdw for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:12 +0200 (EET) Received: from ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr (vfppp079167010191.dsl.hol.gr [79.167.10.191]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id B24ED15861F for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:12 +0200 (EET) Received: by ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0D16F3F40F; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:11 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:48:10 +0200 From: Nikos Ntarmos To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071130174810.GA12640@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: NetCInS Lab., C.E.I.D., U. of Patras, Greece WWW-Homepage: http://ntarmos.dyndns.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9680 60A7 DE60 0298 B1F0 9B22 9BA2 7569 CF95 160A Office-Phone: +30-2610-996919 Office-Fax: +30-2610-969011 GPS-Info: 38.31N, 21.82E User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (FreeBSD) Subject: Re: Starting FreeBSD from AlphaBIOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:10:56 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote: > Hi, > > Can I start my FreeBSD from AlphaBIOS? If yes, how? > Or how can I switch back to SRM from AlphaBIOS? > > I'm on the serial console and after I started AlphaBIOS > I just can push the reset button on the machine. And if am I > far from the machine? If you're going to run anything other than NT, you'd better go the SRM way. If your board doesn't have SRM loaded, head over to [1] for download and installation instructions. You will then be able to enter the AlphaBios setup program and select SRM from Utilities -> CMOS Setup - -> Advanced -> Console selection. Keep in mind that you'll need BSD-type disklabels on your boot disk, but that's ok with Linux and all BSDs. There is also a method to swith between AlphaBios and SRM; have a look at [2] (although that one pertains more to the linux folk). FWIW I switched my 164SX to SRM a decade ago and never looked back at AlphaBios since then... Some of the alpha boards didn't have enough space for both firmware images and you could have only one of them loaded at each time (and needed to flash the other one back, should you decide to change firmwares), so ymmv. \n\n [1] http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/readme.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/1999/04/msg00009.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Nikos Ntarmos iD8DBQFHUEzam6J1ac+VFgoRAprPAJ9Sfzs4XRt9VbnEHY/MzwFBXkikLACfZboA mD7avHA+bXHxd5lwT5JvdKA= =3nxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----