From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 18 09:09:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA01202 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA01196 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 09:09:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id MAA01272; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:09:16 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA50032; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:09:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:09:05 -0500 (EST) To: "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot kern.flp wedges -- now what? In-Reply-To: <367A89AC.4C647498@ics.com> References: <367A7B9D.42F9E33C@ics.com> <13946.32111.243029.543879@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <367A89AC.4C647498@ics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13946.35442.260953.650982@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kaleb S. KEITHLEY writes: > The floppy's okay. `set console graphics` at the SRM prompt and cycling > the power was a good thing to do. Now I get the twirling baton cursor, > the kern floppy loads, I'm prompted to insert the MFS root floppy. As > you > predicted I got: > > Support for system type 20 is not present in this kernel. > Please build a kernel with "options DEC_EB64PLUS" and reboot. > > panic: platform not configured > > message. Good. <..> > > Also, FreeBSD does not yet support IDE devices > > You're talking about FreeBSD-alpha, right? FreeBSD-intel does IDE just > fine. What's the story with IDE on alpha? Last I checked, isa devices requiring DMA didn't work yet, and the new, pci-only driver wasn't yet done. (at least I though somebody was working on one...) I'd be happy to be wrong about that ;-) > > (and I doubt your SRM > > console is capable of booting from one), so you'll need to get a SCSI > > controller your console recognizes & a SCSI disk. > > For the moment I don't even see what the SCSI device is. When I do an > `ls` at the SRM prompt there's dva0.0.0.0.1 which is the floppy, there's > ewa0.0.0.7.0 which is the NIC. Or will that automatically appear when I > plug in the SCSI card? I've got an Adaptec 1542 somewhere, is that > supported? AFAIK, the srm console only groks NCR8x0 & ISP10x0 scsi devices. NCR810s are quite cheap if you can find them. > It seems surprising that the SRM console wouldn't support the IDE, given > that it's on the board; but I guess I'll have to take your word on that. Do a 'show dev' from the console. If you see any dk* devices, then your console is smarter than most (but I doubt it)& can boot from your ide disk. If your network card shows up as 'ewX' then you should be able to boot from it.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message