Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 18:03:38 +0200 From: Pawel Nogas <pnogas@amu.edu.pl> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <00101118165300.00706@SpiderWeb> In-Reply-To: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <00101113453803.02358@SpiderWeb> <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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