From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 11 6:32:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7686537BBF2 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01331; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:32:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id JAA27793; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:32:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:32:30 -0400 (EDT) To: szapata@creatos.com.mx Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbie installation question on Alpha Server 1000 In-Reply-To: <396B3C49.6696EDE4@creatos.com.mx> References: <396B3C49.6696EDE4@creatos.com.mx> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14699.8405.370034.463341@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Santiago Zapata writes: > Hi: > > I am trying to install 4.0-RELEASE on an AlphaServer 1000. > I already downloaded the boot floppies, I even reach the initial > installation screen when I boot from the floppies but my hard drive is > not recognized > > I tried to do my homewoork searching the list, I found a cuple of > similar questions but I could not find an answer posted. > As you probably found when doing your homework, it is impossible for us to help without a good description of your hardware, the version of FreeBSD you are using, and whatever output you saw when you booted FreeBSD. Please post the output of the SRM 'show conf' command. Please also post the boot output from FreeBSD. It is helpful to use a serial console to capture this output (you may also be able to scroll back in a graphics console by hitting scroll-lock & using the pageup/pagedown keys). Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message