Re: Starting FreeBSD from AlphaBIOS
Nikos Ntarmos <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.alpha |
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| Organization | NetCInS Lab., C.E.I.D., U. of Patras, Greece |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Ruzsinszky Attila wrote: > Hi, > > Can I start my FreeBSD from AlphaBIOS? If yes, how? > Or how can I switch back to SRM from AlphaBIOS? > > I'm on the serial console and after I started AlphaBIOS > I just can push the reset button on the machine. And if am I > far from the machine? If you're going to run anything other than NT, you'd better go the SRM way. If your board doesn't have SRM loaded, head over to [1] for download and installation instructions. You will then be able to enter the AlphaBios setup program and select SRM from Utilities -> CMOS Setup - -> Advanced -> Console selection. Keep in mind that you'll need BSD-type disklabels on your boot disk, but that's ok with Linux and all BSDs. There is also a method to swith between AlphaBios and SRM; have a look at [2] (although that one pertains more to the linux folk). FWIW I switched my 164SX to SRM a decade ago and never looked back at AlphaBios since then... Some of the alpha boards didn't have enough space for both firmware images and you could have only one of them loaded at each time (and needed to flash the other one back, should you decide to change firmwares), so ymmv. \n\n [1] http://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/readme.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/1999/04/msg00009.html -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Nikos Ntarmos <[email protected]> iD8DBQFHUEzam6J1ac+VFgoRAprPAJ9Sfzs4XRt9VbnEHY/MzwFBXkikLACfZboA mD7avHA+bXHxd5lwT5JvdKA= =3nxS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"