From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 14:31:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2FE16A4BF for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:31:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.nmt.edu (mailhost.NMT.EDU [129.138.4.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D9343FE9 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:31:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rglasnap@nmt.edu) Received: from speare5-1-10.nmt.edu (speare5-1-10.nmt.edu [129.138.2.194]) by mailhost.nmt.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8TLVqrm030603 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:31:53 -0600 Received: from speare5-1-10.nmt.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by speare5-1-10.nmt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8TLVq7p015669 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:31:52 -0600 Received: from localhost (rglasnap@localhost)h8TLVpJZ015665 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:31:52 -0600 X-Authentication-Warning: speare5-1-10.nmt.edu: rglasnap owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 15:31:51 -0600 (MDT) From: rglasnap@nmt.edu X-X-Sender: rglasnap@speare5-1-10 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Alpha on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 21:31:55 -0000 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 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? --Ryan Glasnapp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zen Master say, Be like the B-field forever flowing and doing no work. -Brook Hmm, when the cat is dizzy it walks in r = theta Come see the chain rule inherent in the system! Help, help, I'm being differentiated! "@#$! the physics Ben, by the time you figure out whether or not it's possible we'll be dead... TWICE!" The Grand Tour Is there life after /dev/null? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------