Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:33:56 -0500 From: "Jim King" <king@sstar.com> To: "Michael Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, <alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting install disk Message-ID: <002201bfa3c2$f903ec30$a44b8486@jking> References: <200004111426.KAA05686@blackhelicopters.org>
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On Tuesday, April 11, 2000 9:26 AM, Michael Lucas wrote: > Hello, > > I just found myself the proud owner of an utterly obsolete and > completely undocumented Alpha system. Being a masochist, I decided to > install FreeBSD. > > There's a friendly little menu system when the box boots, labeling it > a "ARC Multiboot Alpha AXP Version 3.5-7", and a boot menu. > > You can tell it to boot off the floppy drive, but I keep getting a > "file system not recognized" error. > > I'd be delighted to send along hardware details, but there's no model > number on the box. It's brown, flat, rather like a miniature desktop > PC case. Four audio ports on the front. The motherboard slides out > the back. > > Does anybody have any idea what this machine is, and where I could get > more information on it? I'd love to do a FreeBSD/Alpha article, but I > don't even know where to begin. The Handbook & FAQ appear silent on > the matter. Sounds like a Multia. You need to switch it from the ARC firmware to the SRM firmware, and then boot the FreeBSD install disk. Sorry, I got rid of my Multia a while ago and can't remember the commands to do that. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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