Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:00:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, FreeBSD-Alpha <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PC164SX/booting the floppy Message-ID: <199908230400.VAA00975@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 00:01:16 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908222359370.49952-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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> > > I want to do a floppy disk/nfs install (using my 10BaseT ethernet card > > > and my second machine rigth next to it with the latest snap loaded), > > > but I've never seen the screen I'm looking at before, which is a GUI > > > representation with many different options. There isn't, as far as I > > > can see, any command line I can tell it to boot a kernel from. > > > > > > I was able to use the GUI to select the SRM console (that much was easy) > > > but I don't know what to do now, and the INSTALL.TXT isn't any help on > > > this. > > > > > > Does anyone who has a PC164 know what I mean, and know what I should do > > > to get this thing booted? > > > > 'boot dva0' > > Mike, there isn't any command prompt to issue this at! I have a nice > GUI, what do I do with it? Where's the missing command line? You said you found the option to swap it to the SRM console. If that worked, you should have a command prompt. If not, then you need to get the bits out of my alpha archive on www.freebsd.org and flash the SRM firmware into your machine. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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