Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:14:12 -0400 From: Allen Ziegenfus <aziegenfus@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Can't boot 5.1 install media Message-ID: <20030807001412.26fea1c3.aziegenfus@mindspring.com>
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I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my Alpha to no avail. I have a PC164LX with SRM v5.8. I downloaded 5.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso as a starting point. I downloaded this over several nights (using wget -c) and the md5 checksum matched up. (I hope the new smaller iso image is available soon.) Then I tried booting the CD. I have 4 IDE drives in the Alpha, 3 hard drives and a CD burner. At first I tried booting off the CD drive on the second IDE channel but it would display an error like, "cannot find device" -- maybe there is some limitation that you can only boot off of dqa0 or dqa1? So I moved the CD drive to dqa0 and then I get some promising messages but after the "jumping to bootstrap" message it just hangs. I also can't seem to boot my RH 7.1 media, so who knows what that problem is. Then I tried making floppies. No matter how I try to copy the floppy image (from RH Linux), I get a "invalid boot block" when trying boot dva0 from SRM. I can still boot off some older linux floppies. dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 I'm sure (or I hope) there is something very obvious I'm missing. Any ideas? I guess the next step is to try to download the floppy images separately. Allen --
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