Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 01:37:30 +0100 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> To: Steven <steven@trance.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 SCSI woes Message-ID: <20020301003729.GC11453@cicely8.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <008f01c1c0b8$4bdee9a0$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk> References: <008f01c1c0b8$4bdee9a0$0201a8c0@offline.org.uk>
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On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:30:31AM -0000, Steven wrote: > Hi, > > My machine is an AlphaStation 200 (200 4/233 with 192 meg RAM) > > I posted a questions to freebsd-questions earlier this evening (to which i > had no replies). I appologise if this is the wrong mailing to be using, but > I have been finding it really hard to find any information relevant to my > hardware. The original problem was about booting from the 4.5 alpha cd > (namely the keyboard stops working when the terminal type menu comes up). > Searches on google and reading the hardware.txt file were of no help. > Finally I found the archieves for this list and know now its because of my > graphics card not being supported. IMHO it would be *really* useful to > mention this in the hardware file. Although I have learnt a fair bit about > my system in the past 6 hours whilst trying to figure it out, other people > might just give up. It looks like sysinstall gets confused by the old disk content. If you zero out the first blocks you should be able to install. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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