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Subject: Re: RAID controller problem on Digital Server 5305
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On Friday 01 August 2003 17:55, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried what you suggest and it asks to insert a disk for addition
> modules BUT when I press enter it says it cant find any floppy drives, but
> I just boot the setup from the floppy drive. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Anthony

I remember having problems with this, but I can't remember what I did to fix 
them. It's probably easiest just to boot off a cdrom, if that's possible for 
you. 
Download the 'cdboot.iso' image via ftp from 
current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/, burn it to a cd, 
and then 'boot dka500' (or similar, see the 'show dev' output from the SRM 
>>> prompt), should boot off the cd with no problems. CD installs are *far* 
easier on on Alpha, to the point that floppy-boot installs have been 
deprectated in 5.1-CURRENT as of a few weeks ago. You could also boot off a 
floppy and load the mlx module from a cd, I suppose, but I've not tried that.

 -Adam