From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 14:14: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7508537B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:14:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13jpfu-000GNt-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:14:02 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9CLGEg20898; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:16:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 23:16:14 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Steve Price , alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AlphaServer 1000A Message-ID: <20001012231614.B20816@freebie.demon.nl> References: <20001012153936.U29088@bonsai.knology.net> <14822.9055.232569.714864@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <14822.9055.232569.714864@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:50:04PM -0400 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 04:50:04PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Steve Price writes: > > Hi all, > > > > My father-in-law just dropped an AlphaServer 1000A by the > > house that he wants me to install FreeBSD on. Question is > > how do I get it to drop to the console? I've downloaded > > the firmware update from DEC, put it on a DOS floppy, and > > named the file fwupdate.exe but the box insists on booting > > from dka0 and into OpenVMS despite my best efforts. > > > > Thanks for any and all enlightenment. > > If its running VMS that means you've got the SRM console and you > probably don't need to bother w/a firmware update. > > There's a couple of ways to get to the console: > > - Look for a halt button & press it. Which is marked with a symbol resembling the STOP sign used on the road (triangle upside down) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message