'me too':-).
But how srm was installed?
--
	Andrey

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Andrew van der Stock wrote:

> You got the floppy cable back to front or upside down. Keep on playing until
> you get it right. Trust me, I did the same thing.
> 
> Bad DEC for not including a $0.05 plastic form on the board to make this
> impossible to get wrong.
> 
> have fun,
> Andrew
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-alpha-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-alpha-owner@netbsd.org]On
> Behalf Of Andrew Brown
> Sent: Friday, 3 November 2000 09:51
> To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
> Subject: a little pc164 help please
> 
> 
> i got the motherboards a while back, and finally got all the bits
> together to build it.  i installed the srm console stuff, and
> downloaded some floppy images from
> 
>    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/snapshot/20000620-1.5/
> 
> but it won't boot.  it seems to read in the whole first floppy (the
> stepper motor in the floppy drive clicks about 80 times), but never
> does anything else, or asks for a different floppy.  the light doesn't
> go off either.
> 
> i've tried replacing both the drive and the disk, and tried some older
> boot floppies, but it still doesn't wanna go anywhere.
> 
> help?  please?
> 
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