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To: Matteo Bernardini <matteo@ing.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Problems in installing on a DEC 500a
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Matteo Bernardini writes:
 > Sorry for bothering you...
 > 
 > I got a Digital Personal Workstation 500a in which I have to install
 > freebsd.
 > I upgraded the firmware to 7.2, the latest one, and I have booted the
 > installation floppy and the cd-rom for release 4.3: it actually starts
 > to load the kernel and then I got a message
 > "Expected 1, not 4 program headers" (that looks like an elf problem)
 > and it quits.
 > I'm booting from milo and at the command line I write
 > boot fd0:kernel.gz
 > boot hda:kernel
 > If I try to boot from Alphabios it keeps looking for kernel on the first
 > partition of the harddisk (SCSI)
 > Am I doing something wrong?

Yes, you cannot boot FreeBSD from Milo.  You must boot from SRM.
Switch your machine to the SRM console & then try the install.

Drew

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