Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:31:51 -0600 (MDT) From: rglasnap@nmt.edu To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Alpha on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309291525590.15542-100000@speare5-1-10>
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Hi, I've got a Digital Alpha Personal Workstation 500a a.k.a. Miata. I was able to install FreeBSD just fine however I experienced problems after a while of running FreeBSD. While booting the kernel had problems reading from the harddrive and would have to do an ata reset a couple of times. After some troubleshooting I determined that the IDE controllers on the motherboard were almost dead. So I went out and bought a PCI IDE controller. SRM did not see anything attached to the new IDE controller so I tried hooking up the cdrom to the old IDE controller and booting the freebsd 5.1 CD. This worked and everything was fine, except I can't boot from SRM. I know there are bootable floppies for install, but how can I make a bootable floopy that will just boot and not run the FreeBSD installer? --Ryan Glasnapp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zen Master say, Be like the B-field forever flowing and doing no work. -Brook Hmm, when the cat is dizzy it walks in r = theta Come see the chain rule inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being differentiated! "@#$! the physics Ben, by the time you figure out whether or not it's possible we'll be dead... TWICE!" The Grand Tour Is there life after /dev/null? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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