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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 1999 11:01:52 +1000 (EST)
From:      MAX@one.com.au
Subject:   freebsd on alpha?
Message-ID:  <199911290101.LAA17925@gw.one.com.au>

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I have a Digital Alpha200 station planned to be install with FREEBSD OS.
Firstly I am having the trouble of booting up at the main console, I used the
kern.flp and mfsroot.flp to boot up to begin the installation. Right after it
boot up with the prompt of terminal selection where you have 4 choices, my
keyboard give no response to the machine. Wonder why?
Secondly, alternatively, i used a serial port terminal to get the console
prompt. I am able to boot up and begin with installation process. But the only
this is that I have the error message on installation which are from the
documentation files where i presume that it do no harm to the installation
process. Upon the end, where we suppose to put in root passwd, the process was
skipped, due to unknown reason. I tried to reboot after the installation, but
the OS does not even get boot up.

here's ther error msg after I reboot:

(boot dka0.0.0.6.0 -flags a)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.6.0 is a valid boot block
reading 15 blocks from dka0.0.0.6.0
bootstrap code read in
base=if2000, image_start=0, image_bytes=1e00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1e4000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
*** keyboard not plugged in ...
Can't open file /boot/loader
*** keyboard not plugged in ...

halted CPU 0

halt code=5
HALT instruction executed
PC=20000038
boot failure
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