From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 14 2: 2:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7323E15250 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 02:02:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA09025; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:02:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:02:39 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Ross Harvey Cc: andrew@python.shoal.net.au, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installing FreeBSD on a DECpc AXP 150 In-Reply-To: <199909132244.PAA17557@random.teraflop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Ross Harvey wrote: > > From: Andrew Perry > > > > I'm sorry if this has been asked before but I have searched the archives > > and can't find an answer. > > > > How do I install FreeBSD on my AXP150? I have a working boot diskette that > > I have tested on another box and FreeBSD 3.2. > > I've been told that this model alpha won't boot from the diskette, I've > > tried boot dva0 but just get a message "?84 fail". > > > > Any suggestions? > > Andrew Perry > > > > ps: please include me in the responses as I am not subscribed to the list. > > > > Oh my, you have a Jensen, and right, SRM for some wierd reason can't boot > from a floppy on that thing, so you have to jump through some hoops to load > a kernel. > > However, NetBSD didn't (and doesn't) support the Jensen, so there was no > platform-specific code for FreeBSD to import... I hope you are not trying to imply that we can't write our own platform-specific code... Anyway, Ross is correct. We don't support the Jensen and currently I have no plans to support it since I am unlikely to ever get access to the hardware. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message