From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 14:26:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0D015250 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 14:25:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA544D for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 23:25:35 +0100 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 1467; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:29:06 +1100 Message-ID: <385D5AD5.44FC6F7A@S1.com> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:23:17 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Cook Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing on an alpha References: <19991218000646.A5875@harshbutfair.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG G'day Steven, > > I've just installed FreeBSD on my Alpha and I've run into a problem. > The install itself went smoothly, but after rebooting I can't work > out how to boot it. I suspect this should be obvious, but I can't > get it and the lack of documentation makes things difficult. > > So far I've tried the following at the SRM console, all fail: > > >>> boot > >>> boot dka300 > >>> boot -file /kernel dka300 > >>> boot -file /kernel.GENERIC dka300 > > What do I need to do to get it to boot? > Dumb question, but I'll ask anyway ;') Are you sure you're booting from dka300? I know sometimes mVAX and Alphas boot from dkb300 - and for that matter, I would think that the scsi id could be set to others. Unfortunately I don't have any DEC equipment docs close by. dka100 also seems to be a common setting. See if you can get the fishbones to tell you what devices you have configured. It's been a year or more, but I think it's ">>> show device" :'/ Sorry I couldn't give you a 'pat' answer, but hopefully you'll nut it out :') Regards, |-| To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message