From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 19 15:32: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9E41561E for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 15:32:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA15266; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:29:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA25855; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:29:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:29:37 -0400 (EDT) To: Alex Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing on a MB164UX MotherBoard In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14107.44457.771144.644059@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex writes: > Good Day. > > My company recently purchased a new Alpha system with a Samsung MB164UX > motherboard. I am currently trying to install FreeBSD and having a heck > of time with it. I have dug through the archives at Freebsd.org with no > avail. I have two questions: > 1) Is this board reffered to as the "Ruffian" motherboard ? > 2) How do I get FreeBSD on this system ? You have a motherboard wich does not support the SRM console, only the AlphaBios. Currently, FreeBSD only boots from the SRM console. There were people working on booting FreeBSD from the AlphaBios, but I believe the project is stalled, possibly due to a lack of documentation. Sorry.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message