Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 20:00:13 +0200 From: webmaster@ah-network.de To: <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Fw: alpha Message-ID: <000601bdda89$5d1d06c0$7f00a8c0@FOETZSTATION>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Baldwin" <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: <webmaster@ah-network.de> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 7:22 PM Subject: Re: alpha > webmaster@ah-network.de wrote: > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > dear daemons!! > > > > a few weeks ago i bought an alpha 21164. after a litte bit of researching i was able to "change" the bios into the srm console. > > but it did not work. everytime i booted with the 4.1 cd it stopped at the "jumping to bootstrap", and the system does not react but i can see the cube-like cursor at the left. i guess this is the point where normally the installation should start. the same with netbsd. suse 6.3+6.4 didn_t make any problems but i would much more like freebsd running on my system. what can i do?? > > here_s the system: > > 21164/533mhz/2mb cache > > lx164 > > 256mb/ecc > > 15gb maxtor/ide > > lg 48x/ide > > floppy!! > > matrox 2mb/svga > > i got the srm update from ftp.digital.com and directly from api_s homepage. my alpha-bios is 5.68-1 > > > > best regards g.fischer > > You probably want to ask about this on the freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org list. > However, are you sure you are telling SRM to boot from your CD and not > from the hard disk? > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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