From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 7:37:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from team7.cba.ualr.edu (team7.cba.ualr.edu [144.167.120.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F33137B665 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 07:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Received: from access33.mod1.ualr.edu (access33.mod1.ualr.edu [144.167.7.33]) by team7.cba.ualr.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02443; Mon, 1 May 2000 09:37:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joe@team7.cba.ualr.edu) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 09:37:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Royce X-Sender: joe@njal.valhalla.org To: Bert Bruins Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AXPpci33 In-Reply-To: <000201bfb36d$f9695420$99deaa82@bert> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 1 May 2000, Bert Bruins wrote: > I have a AXPpci33 ALpha motherbord with scsi cdrom and a IDE hd. > The SRM console is running on it. When i boot from floppy BSD 2.5 at a point there is a prompt for > choosing a hardisk. I don't see any suggestions and i have to cancel installation. > When i use 'show device' in srm there isn't a harddrive. > Before that i used ARC console and the hardisk was available then. > > Q1: Is it possible to install bsd with the srm console in this configuration? > > Q2: Do i have to go back to ARc and how to perform that? > > Thank you > > Bert Bruins > First, FreeBSD 2.5 does not run on the Alpha. You will need to get 3.3 or higher. Second, FreeBSD uses SRM to boot but the SRM for your model does not support booting from IDE. So basically, your choices are to get a SCSI hard disk to boot from or set it up to boot from floppy. Good luck. -Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message