From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Aug 23 8:50:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (oreilly131.oreilly.mbaynet.com [206.55.242.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5858114D22 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 08:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00975; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908230400.VAA00975@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD-Alpha Subject: Re: PC164SX/booting the floppy In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:01:16 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > I want to do a floppy disk/nfs install (using my 10BaseT ethernet card > > > and my second machine rigth next to it with the latest snap loaded), > > > but I've never seen the screen I'm looking at before, which is a GUI > > > representation with many different options. There isn't, as far as I > > > can see, any command line I can tell it to boot a kernel from. > > > > > > I was able to use the GUI to select the SRM console (that much was easy) > > > but I don't know what to do now, and the INSTALL.TXT isn't any help on > > > this. > > > > > > Does anyone who has a PC164 know what I mean, and know what I should do > > > to get this thing booted? > > > > 'boot dva0' > > Mike, there isn't any command prompt to issue this at! I have a nice > GUI, what do I do with it? Where's the missing command line? You said you found the option to swap it to the SRM console. If that worked, you should have a command prompt. If not, then you need to get the bits out of my alpha archive on www.freebsd.org and flash the SRM firmware into your machine. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message