[Newbie at FreeBSD Alpha]

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 02:34:56PM -0300, Jynx Jynx wrote:
> Greetings to all,
> 
>       I'm recently purchased a Alphaserver DS10. I'm a big FreeBSD fan from
> Brazil and I finally got access to an Alpha machine.  I have downloaded the
> FreeBSD stable version 6.2 and tried to install it on the machine.
> Everything was fine during the installation, however, when the system boot
> (bringing up the FreeBSD) the kernel stops at the following lines:
> 
> acd0: CDROM <HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8480B/2.11> at ata1-master PIO4
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0a*

Send the output from SRM command
 >>>SHOW DEVICE

and from
 #dmesg

Can you boot in single user mode?

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