From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 30 18:40:10 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 7181316A46C for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:40:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ruzsinszky.attila@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1F413C46A for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:40:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ruzsinszky.attila@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id u77so5131948pyb for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=3AH4JbkqIzv/+uNONu2JKawxHIBm/pjI4MZZzaaI32Y=; b=CRpuhKc5Y4ZkrJ+dCcMaiGBTDFaggvE/gRRTJ6l7/7EFGbbagubXxGgm1ovpVGJJYiCaG6p/R7lEcUoF79b7rS9W6fwx1o+nktY1YxpINnlYB10PWZhAkwgV4CexbcvUjc9OvNnRqVU7wmf2zCyILbvQgNIfMJ3v0C+nMr+wjs0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Mxy5EL1zyJcnZL1GPVd48JyKBAyB/M9i/IDibaMBQ113u1k+5JyRUUVEnWRosjCVPvdem4CaPTxuFXXvdI8C89KSVW6FJ7xHa+Hd6yUDvkgsFQhxStu8dn2poaCVAV3t0x/VGmOk835YKqqcjsMLbfd7TaKgZqlknWI3gabF9o0= Received: by 10.142.179.12 with SMTP id b12mr945385wff.1196448003069; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.142.104.2 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:40:03 +0100 From: "Ruzsinszky Attila" To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20071130174810.GA12640@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20071130174810.GA12640@ace.netcins.ceid.upatras.gr> 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 18:40:10 -0000 > If you're going to run anything other than NT, you'd better go the SRM It is the default, of course. > 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. I will check it next monday. > 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... It will be checked, too. In the floppy drive now there is a floppy disk with ra200ecu.exe (and some other files related to Mylex RAID controller). Can I use this floppy disk? I don't understand exactly the mentioned sfdisk command. Of course there aren't any hdX drive in my machine just sdX. > 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. After POS SRM is starting. From the >>> prompt I can start AlphaBIOS so I think I don't have to reflash in every time. The machine is: AS4000 TIA, Ruzsi