Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:00:58 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Message-ID: <20010214200058.A1114@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <14986.53576.335104.667232@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:41:12PM -0500 References: <3A8ABA79.00007D.61555@frodo.searchcanada.ca> <14986.53576.335104.667232@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:41:12PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > cb_open: failed DVA 0 1000 0 0 0 8086 002 dva0.0.0.1000.0 > > > > I get similar results with 4.2 booting from a CD. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > The 1200 is part of the "rawhide" family of machines. Our bootloader > provokes bugs in the console firmware of the rawhide (or vice versa) > and prevents the machine from booting FreeBSD via floppy or CD-ROM > devices. > > One workaround is to dd the contents of the boot.flp (2.8MB) floppy to > a scsi disk and boot from that. Another option is to install FreeBSD > using a different type of alpha and move the disk after the > installation. > > Your situation is slightly more complex because you have an Adaptec > 2940 SCSI controller. I don't think the SRM console will boot from > that device (though FreeBSD supports it). It will only boot from No, SRM does not boot from the Adaptec. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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