From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 27 19:48:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47D2237B422; Sun, 27 May 2001 19:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4S2uvA05846; Sun, 27 May 2001 19:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200105280256.f4S2uvA05846@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Jordan Hubbard , core@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken loader? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 May 2001 19:44:04 PDT." <20010527194404.A62361@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 19:56:57 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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 > There is not fix-floppy for the Alpha, and WCCDROM/BSDi/WRS has cut the > fixit disc from their product. Due to limitations of the platform one > cannot boot into the loader from the install CD and continue the boot > from the hard disk. However, you can boot the loader and kernel from floppy, but mount another disk as root. This is a bit slower, but typically allows you to achieve something similar. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message