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Subject: Re: Booting install disk
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:33:56 -0500
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On Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:26 AM, Michael Lucas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just found myself the proud owner of an utterly obsolete and
> completely undocumented Alpha system.  Being a masochist, I decided to
> install FreeBSD.
>
> There's a friendly little menu system when the box boots, labeling it
> a "ARC Multiboot Alpha AXP Version 3.5-7", and a boot menu.
>
> You can tell it to boot off the floppy drive, but I keep getting a
> "file system not recognized" error.
>
> I'd be delighted to send along hardware details, but there's no model
> number on the box.  It's brown, flat, rather like a miniature desktop
> PC case.  Four audio ports on the front.  The motherboard slides out
> the back.
>
> Does anybody have any idea what this machine is, and where I could get
> more information on it?  I'd love to do a FreeBSD/Alpha article, but I
> don't even know where to begin.  The Handbook & FAQ appear silent on
> the matter.

Sounds like a Multia.  You need to switch it from the ARC firmware to the
SRM firmware, and then boot the FreeBSD install disk.  Sorry, I got rid of
my Multia a while ago and can't remember the commands to do that.

Jim




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