From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 14 10:58:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC62437B4EC for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:58:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14T77x-000A8W-00; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:58:10 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1EJ0w401166; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:00:58 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:00:58 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Michael Richards , freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Message-ID: <20010214200058.A1114@freebie.demon.nl> References: <3A8ABA79.00007D.61555@frodo.searchcanada.ca> <14986.53576.335104.667232@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14986.53576.335104.667232@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:41:12PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 01:41:12PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > cb_open: failed DVA 0 1000 0 0 0 8086 002 dva0.0.0.1000.0 > > > > I get similar results with 4.2 booting from a CD. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > The 1200 is part of the "rawhide" family of machines. Our bootloader > provokes bugs in the console firmware of the rawhide (or vice versa) > and prevents the machine from booting FreeBSD via floppy or CD-ROM > devices. > > One workaround is to dd the contents of the boot.flp (2.8MB) floppy to > a scsi disk and boot from that. Another option is to install FreeBSD > using a different type of alpha and move the disk after the > installation. > > Your situation is slightly more complex because you have an Adaptec > 2940 SCSI controller. I don't think the SRM console will boot from > that device (though FreeBSD supports it). It will only boot from No, SRM does not boot from the Adaptec. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message