From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 14 0: 2:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A22CE15291 for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:02:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA31578; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:02:44 -0800 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 00:02:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Craig Burgess Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaPC post-install BOOT - how? In-Reply-To: <382E6A8D.AF266CE8@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Craig Burgess wrote: > > Well, installing onto the IDE drive ain't an option because although SRM > sees it, FreeBSD doesn't. > > Ooohhhhh this is sad: 500MHz machine w/ 256MB RAM ... When I got it (a > couple of days ago) I could boot ARC -> NT but the goal was FreeBSD... > > thanks anyway, > Eh? It most certainly does see the ata drive... I'm running a PC164 off of dqa0 right now. Maybe just the install kernel doesn't work for you? Oh- yeah- it's commented out in GENERIC because it didn't work up until a week or so agao. Well- this will change very very soon, so have patience or bug me to try and build you an install kernel with ATA on... -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message