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
