Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:09:47 -0600 (MDT) From: rglasnap@nmt.edu To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309301408110.20973-100000@speare5-1-10> In-Reply-To: <20030930200337.GA13677@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:27:23PM -0600, rglasnap@nmt.edu wrote: > > 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 > > Unfortunately the SRM is quite picky in what it accepts as an IDE controller > to boot from, > > > 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? > > You should be able to just stick the bootblocks on floppy and have it boot > the IDE disk from there. I've been looking for instructions on how to do that. I'm assuming I have to grab something with dd, but I'm not sure what. --Ryan > > Alternatively you could find yourself a small SCSI disk and use that to > boot from the SRM. > > Wilko > > -- > | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org > |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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