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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?
>
> --
>
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