Alpha on FreeBSD

[rglasnap at nmt.edu]

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 
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?

--Ryan Glasnapp

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