Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:58:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Trevor Johnson <trevor@FreeBSD.org> To: <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Cc: <trevor@jpj.net> Subject: newbie question--trouble booting EB164 Message-ID: <20010722175500.C51924-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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I was given an EB164, which ran Windows NT when I received it. I removed its video card and IDE CD-ROM drive. I plugged in my Matrox Millennium I video card. I installed version 4.8-1 of the SRM firmware from gatekeeper.dec.com. I put the kern.flp image from the 5.0-20010126-CURRENT snapshot onto a floppy disk and got this: >>>boot dva0 (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0) block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is a valid boot block reading 15 blocks from dva0.0.0.0.1 bootstrap code read in base = 11c000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1e00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 10e000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code The LED on the floppy drive lit up, went dark, then lit again while I heard the drive seeking, then went out again and stayed that way. The same thing happens with 4.3-RELEASE and with NetBSD 1.5.1. When I received the computer, it had two floppy drives, an HD and an ED one. I tried attaching the primary end of the floppy cable to the other drive. I also tried another floppy disk. The result was the same. When I do "show device" at the SRM prompt, only dva0 is listed, even after I put back the CD-ROM drive. I have a CD burner, an AHA 1542CF SCSI card, and some SCSI CD-ROM drives. I also have some Ethernet cards (no DEC ones though). Before I try booting from CD or from the network, though, I'm wondering whether anyone has an idea of what I have already done wrong. -- Trevor Johnson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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