Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:22:08 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: webmaster@ah-network.de Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alpha Message-ID: <200009071722.KAA06164@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <000a01bdda7e$d684be00$7f00a8c0@FOETZSTATION> from "webmaster@ah-network.de" at "Sep 7, 1998 06:44:49 pm"
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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-questions" in the body of the message
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