From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 10:36:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1D8A37B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 10:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 13wTtE-0002dq-00; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:36:04 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.0) id eAG6dkM01306; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:39:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 07:39:46 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to boot from floppy? Message-ID: <20001116073946.C319@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from jdp@polstra.com on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:13:18AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-BETA X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:13:18AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: > OK, it's a lame question, but I can't remember any more how to boot > from a floppy on the Alpha. What is the device name? "Show device" > lists the 2 SCSI hard drives, the SCSI CD-ROM, an Ethernet card, the > SCSI controller, and "dva0" which I don't recognize. I tried "boot dva0 is the floppy > dva0", but that just timed out. The SRM "documentation" is as usual > nearly worthless. boot dva0 should do it yes. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message