From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Feb 25 17:59:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from CoDech.PerfectGenius.Com (c373625-a.muskgn1.mi.home.com [24.10.50.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA5737BBE6 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:59:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@CoDech.PerfectGenius.Com) Received: from localhost (adam@localhost) by CoDech.PerfectGenius.Com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA01147; Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:59:27 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from adam@CoDech.PerfectGenius.Com) Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:59:27 -0500 (EST) From: adam To: Dirk Kleinhesselink Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FBSD On an DEC AlphaStation/200 (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yes, i actually got this now (someone helped me on IRC) but now the question is (while im installing this ;-) will it setup so i can boot strait off hard drive, i see no options, and am just wondering how i would boot otherwise... On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Dirk Kleinhesselink wrote: > I recently tried the same thing and posted to this group. The answers I > got were: These machines have TGA cards and FreeBSD does not support the > tga (even as a text/console) and so it falls back to serial. Replace the > TGA card with some other card (non DEC card i.e. an S3 card should work > fine or the ELSA Gloria Synergy card) and try with that. Or else download > NetBSD/alpha 1.4.1 and you can run this on your AS 200... > > Dirk > > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, adam wrote: > > > When I boot dka500 in console, it loads freebsd but try's to drop to > > Serial install, and cant type on keyboard, any suggestions? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message