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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:25:45 +0200
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To: Matteo Bernardini <matteo@ing.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: Problems in installing on a DEC 500a
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:09:30PM -0500, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> 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?

FreeBSD does not run under AlphaBIOS or ARC. You need to run it from the SRM
console.

I have no clue about milo, and I don't see why one would want to use it with
FreeBSD to be honest. 

W/

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