From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 15 06:46:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D3C37B401 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:46:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server1.ultratrends.com (server1.ultratrends.com [205.206.59.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0988843FA3 for ; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 06:46:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from trodat@ultratrends.com) Received: from server1.ultratrends.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h7FEjaGB066044; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:45:36 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost (trodat@localhost)h7FEjaQt066041; Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:45:36 -0700 (MST) X-Authentication-Warning: server1.ultratrends.com: trodat owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 07:45:36 -0700 (MST) From: Technical Director To: d In-Reply-To: <000801c362fd$0bf63a80$03c8a8c0@ripd2ei3vovj8t> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: your mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:46:28 -0000 J, I had the same problem for a while and gave up on the floppies. I created a bootable CD-ROM and booted from it through the SRM console. There are bootable ISO's in the ALPHA/ directory on the ftp.freebsd.org (and mirrors) server. In the SRM I found out which drive was the CD-ROM and told the console to boot from it. After the darkness and reboot of the SRM it booted and loaded the cdrom fine. I'm using 4.8-RELEASE on a Alpha 1000a on a EVA5. It's a little pokier than I remember on Tru64 4.0F but I am much more comfortable with FreeBSD and the lack of "License Paks" on this hardware. R. PS If you know more power to you but: 1 - To see which drives were identified by the SRM console type: >>> show config The drives should have funky names like dka#.0.0.#000.0 and the likes and a text string that 'may' identify the drive. 2 - Once you identify the drive you want to boot from type: >>> boot dka#.0.0.#000.0 The screen will go black and you will re-post. Hope this helps. On Fri, 15 Aug 2003, d wrote: > hi. im trying to install freebsd 5.1 to my alpha's. im new to all this but im pretty sure ive done things properly so im sort of confused. here goes.. > i downloaded the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp using an ftp client in binary mode. i used brand new disks which i formatted freshly before using both fdimage and rawrite to write the images. (i've tried this process about a half dozen times now.. ) each time i get an error that the disks arent bootable. (block 0 errors) any ideas? > > thanks J > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >