Re: Alpha - floppy as root device ?

[J.C. Roberts]

On Sat, 21 May 2005 14:05:45 +1000, Steve Murdoch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi all,

Can someone throw me in the right direction.

I have an Alphaserver 1000.

The SCSI drives have failed so I have installed a PCI IDE contoller and 
IDE drive.

The SRM doesnt recognise the IDE so after install I wont be able to boot 
from the drive.

Is thee a way to have the floppy as the root device ?


Thanks,

Steve

Since it's an alpha, I sort of doubt you'll be rebooting it often but
either way, floppies are horribly unreliable. A better bet would be to
netboot it or if possible CDROM.

Failing either of those, a better bet would be a SCSI addin card. I
have a few alphas over here and if memory serves me well, one them has
a pair of SCSI cards (in a Digital Server 5000), so I can probably
spare one of the cards. If you want, I could dust off the machine and
look up the exact cards it has.

JCR

Re: Alpha - floppy as root device ?

[Martin Reindl]

Steve Murdoch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Hi all,
 
 Can someone throw me in the right direction.
 
 I have an Alphaserver 1000.
 
 The SCSI drives have failed so I have installed a PCI IDE contoller
 and  IDE drive.
 
 The SRM doesnt recognise the IDE so after install I wont be able to
 boot  from the drive.
 
 Is thee a way to have the floppy as the root device ?

Nope, better get yourself some SCSI drive. Or put root on NFS, but that
can be a pain on alpha.

Martin