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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 2000 12:53:10 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Klaus Berbach <K_Berbach@gmx.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Booting FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011181251560.13406-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001118204734.9642437B479@hub.freebsd.org>

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to see what it's attached to.

You know, there's this cruel joke in that you can boot the install floppies=
,
and install to a disk connected to a SCSI adapter supported by FreeBSD, but
that SRM won't see, so you can't boot from it. I hope that this has not
occurred for you- for a 500 it shouldn't.

> Hi,
>=20
> I am afraid I have joined the list too late (loader
> issues). So, here again. I wonder how to actually boot
> FreeBSD (Alphastation 500). I (think I) have installed
> FreeBSD successfully, but now I can=B4t boot it. "boot
> dka0" or boot "dka0 -fl 0" from SRM does somehow not
> work. So any help or point to documentation would br
> appreciated (well, of course ...)
>=20
> Thank you=20
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