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From: Pawel Nogas <pnogas@amu.edu.pl>
Organization: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:03:38 +0200
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On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, you wrote:
>Pawel Nogas writes:
> > 

> > Release 4.0, 4.1 - system have been installed sucessfuly, but i can't boot it:
> > 
>
>How did you install it? There's a few things that could have gone
>wrong that might result in what you're seeing:
>
>- You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a)
>	-- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks.
>
>- You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha
>	distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha

I installed it via ftp from ftp.freebsd.org. I don't use any slices.

>
>- Your loader got clobbered or otherwise corrupted.
>
>The easiest thing to try is copying the /boot/loader file from the
>boot floppy into /boot/loader in your root partition.
>
	Can I do it using only kern.flp and mfsroot.flp ? 
(unfortunetly fixit.flp is only in 2.88MB format, and I have not 2.88 floppy
drive in this workstation)





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