From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 9:45: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EF437B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25808 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:45:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAGHj3H48725; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:45:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:45:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011161745.eAGHj3H48725@vashon.polstra.com> To: alpha@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Subject: Re: How to boot from floppy? In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article , John Polstra wrote: > OK, it's a lame question, but I can't remember any more how to boot > from a floppy on the Alpha. What is the device name? "Show device" > lists the 2 SCSI hard drives, the SCSI CD-ROM, an Ethernet card, the > SCSI controller, and "dva0" which I don't recognize. I tried "boot > dva0", but that just timed out. Thanks to those who answered. The floppy device is indeed "dva0". One of the connectors had come unseated. It works now. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message