From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jun 13 11:16: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from aromo.spock.cl (aromo.spock.cl [200.27.125.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDEEF37B40B for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spock.cl (multia.spock.cl [200.27.125.107]) by aromo.spock.cl (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g5DIFVi66762 for ; Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:15:32 -0400 (CLT) Message-ID: <3D0873AE.3050706@spock.cl> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 06:27:58 -0400 From: Roberto de Iriarte User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 2100A Booting from Mini FreeBSD 4.5 ISO References: <000001c212c9$b5e33cd0$0201a8c0@cartman> <3D088073.1000007@free.fr> <15624.47042.375518.197715@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin wrote: >(Please wrap your text at 72 columns) > >ANTOINE Pierre writes: > > Hi all, > > > > Some banking company gave an AlphaServer 2100A to my school, and the > > sysadmin ask me > > to install a free OS on it. Debian can't boot. I've try Mini-Freebsd 4.5 > > ISO booting CD > > from the SRM. The loader go fine to a shell ("press enter to boot or a > > key to shell") > > but without changing anything, the boot freeze with an error message > > about identification > > after that. > >A 2100A should work fine, assuming all the hardware in the box is >supported. Can you please describe the hardware more fully >(transcribe the output of the command "show dev" at the SRM console >prompt >>>). > > I can confirm that 2100A's work fine under 4.5 as long as the rest of the system is supported (i'm typing this on one) Regards Roberto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message