Alpha on FreeBSD

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 01:27:23PM -0600, rglasnap at nmt.edu wrote:
> 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 

Unfortunately the SRM is quite picky in what it accepts as an IDE controller
to boot from,

> 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?

You should be able to just stick the bootblocks on floppy and have it boot
the IDE disk from there.

Alternatively you could find yourself a small SCSI disk and use that to
boot from the SRM.

Wilko

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