From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 30 13:03:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9C7F16A4B3 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9049E43F93 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 13:03:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8UK3cC7013697; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:03:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p1/8.12.9/Submit) id h8UK3bpI013696; Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:03:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 22:03:37 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: rglasnap@nmt.edu Message-ID: <20030930200337.GA13677@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:03:41 -0000 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