From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Nov 14 23:28: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240FE14BFD for ; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:27:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA88857; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA50715; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:27:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 23:27:56 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Michael Kennett Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha PC164SX firmware/booting questions Message-ID: <19991114232755.A90421@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199911150651.OAA03239@laurasia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <199911150651.OAA03239@laurasia.com.au>; from mike@laurasia.com.au on Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 02:51:18PM +0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 2) I'm not sure that the hardware is supported by the SRM console. > - Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller. This is correct. You'll have to find some other boot device than the Adaptec controler. > controller, and I can boot from it. But, apparently the SRM console can't > do this (can only boot from an NCR/Symbios 53c8XX, or possibly IDE -- or > so I've read -- never found definitive doco on this). SRM can also boot from Qlogic controlers. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message