From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 13:09:53 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F28016A4BF for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:09:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.nmt.edu (mailhost.NMT.EDU [129.138.4.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93C114401E for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rglasnap@nmt.edu) Received: from speare5-1-10.nmt.edu (speare5-1-10.nmt.edu [129.138.2.194]) by mailhost.nmt.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8UK9mUa014623 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:09:48 -0600 Received: from speare5-1-10.nmt.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by speare5-1-10.nmt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8UK9m7p020988; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:09:48 -0600 Received: from localhost (rglasnap@localhost)h8UK9lJF020984; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:09:48 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: speare5-1-10.nmt.edu: rglasnap owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:09:47 -0600 (MDT) From: rglasnap@nmt.edu X-X-Sender: rglasnap@speare5-1-10 To: Wilko Bulte In-Reply-To: <20030930200337.GA13677@freebie.xs4all.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:09:53 -0000 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? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------