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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:47:26 +0100
From:      Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Jynx Jynx <mrjynx2@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [Newbie at FreeBSD Alpha]
Message-ID:  <20070731154725.GA75220@mech-aslap33.men.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <a76a86650707271034m26a57d0cl15cc67c71209f700@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a76a86650707271034m26a57d0cl15cc67c71209f700@mail.gmail.com>

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On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:34:56PM -0300, Jynx Jynx wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> 
>       I'm recently purchased a Alphaserver DS10. I'm a big FreeBSD fan from
> Brazil and I finally got access to an Alpha machine.  I have downloaded the
> FreeBSD stable version 6.2 and tried to install it on the machine.
> Everything was fine during the installation, however, when the system boot
> (bringing up the FreeBSD) the kernel stops at the following lines:
> 
> acd0: CDROM <HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B/2.11> at ata1-master PIO4
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a*

Send the output from SRM command
 >>>SHOW DEVICE

and from
 #dmesg

Can you boot in single user mode?

-- 
Anton Shterenlikht
Room 2.6, Queen's Building
Mech Eng Dept
Bristol University
University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 
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