FreeBSD boot problems on Alpha 600 5/333

[Wilko Bulte]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 01:06:58PM +0000, norseman wrote..
> To whomever;
> 	I was having another problem with FreeBSD (intel) and put the 
> following in too. Brooke suggests I try here. 
> 
> (Alpha specific section from another letter)
> >
> > That "different animal" is a DEC ALPHA 600 5/333. The downloaded image
> > is for DEC ALPHA's.  It's not accepting the CD which checks out OK as
> > far as "it's all there" goes. The CD-BURN seems fine. All several of
> > them. Push the button and the CD slides in and the DEC kicks it out.
> > Won't even try to boot it. DEC was originally shipped with Win-NT 4.0
> > and has ARC, OpenVMS and DEC UNIX boot choices. Windows boots but the
> > passwords are long since forgotten. Would like to try FreeBSD on it.
> > The cryptic message on the screen mentions "RUN/STOP switch" but I can

Thats ancient remains of the days that disks had RUN/STOP switches.
Carryover from the DEC VAX days.

Can you get me a SHOW CONF and a SHOW DEV from the >>> prompt?

You could have an oldish CDROM drive that does not understand CDR / CDRW
discs.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org