Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:03:37 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: rglasnap@nmt.edu Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030930200337.GA13677@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309301326300.20794-100000@speare5-1-10> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309301326300.20794-100000@speare5-1-10>
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On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:27:23PM -0600, rglasnap@nmt.edu wrote: > Hi, I've got a Digital Alpha Personal Workstation 500a a.k.a. Miata. I was > able to install FreeBSD just fine however I experienced problems after a > while of running FreeBSD. While booting the kernel had problems reading > from the harddrive and would have to do an ata reset a couple of times. > After some troubleshooting I determined that the IDE controllers on the > motherboard were almost dead. So I went out and bought a PCI IDE > controller. SRM did not see anything attached to the new IDE controller so Unfortunately the SRM is quite picky in what it accepts as an IDE controller to boot from, > I tried hooking up the cdrom to the old IDE controller and booting the > freebsd 5.1 CD. This worked and everything was fine, except I can't boot > from SRM. I know there are bootable floppies for install, but how can I > make a bootable floopy that will just boot and not run the FreeBSD > installer? You should be able to just stick the bootblocks on floppy and have it boot the IDE disk from there. Alternatively you could find yourself a small SCSI disk and use that to boot from the SRM. Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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