From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed May 8 3: 3: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from trillian.santala.org (ip212-226-173-33.adsl.kpnqwest.fi [212.226.173.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DD5237B400 for ; Wed, 8 May 2002 03:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 85725 invoked by uid 11053); 8 May 2002 10:02:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 May 2002 10:02:58 -0000 Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 13:02:58 +0300 (EEST) From: Jarkko Santala X-X-Sender: jake@trillian.santala.org To: Daniel Jung Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: promise ultra100TX2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020508125923.Q258-100000@trillian.santala.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 8 May 2002, Daniel Jung wrote: > Is it possible to boot from a disk that is connected to this controller? > show dev from SRM doesn't seem to detect the disk that is > connected to this controller. The rule of thumb is that if 'show dev'=A0doesn't see it, you can't boot from it. Of course, you could probably use something else to get things going and have the actual system on a disk controlled by the Promise card. You read the Hardware Notes for alpha didn't you? If not: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware-alpha.html =09-jake --=20 Jarkko Santala http://www.iki.fi/~jake/ System Administrator 2001:670:83:f08::/64 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message