From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 9 11:22:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.ucsf.edu (piglet.ucsf.EDU [128.218.67.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C249015087 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:21:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@piglet.ucsf.edu) Received: (from steve@localhost) by piglet.ucsf.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id LAA53407 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:21:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:21:33 -0800 From: Steve Sizemore To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Installing boot manager Message-ID: <19990309112133.A52866@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Trying to install any flavor of BSD on my AlphaPC 164LX. So far FreeBSD seems to come closest, but... After several attempts to install from CDROM (3.1) and various ftp distributions, I finally had success installing the current (4.0) snapshot. The only error message that I got was that the compat22 package failed, which I guess isn't surprising. However, the machine won't boot - it can't find /boot/loader. Why wasn't that installed, and how do I install it? Also, I'm wondering why every time I boot the installation disks, it wants to repartition my disk. Especially after my last install, which seems to have gone to completion, the partition info (as well as populated file systems) should be on the disk, but sysinstall doesn't see it. Thanks for your help. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------#-----#--#####--------------- # # # # Steve Sizemore # # # Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology # # # Box 0450, Room HSE-1285 # # # University of California Medical Center # # # # 513 Parnassus Avenue ##### ##### ##### ####### San Francisco CA 94143-0450 # # # # # steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu ##### ##### (415) 476-6987 FAX: (415) 476-6515 # # # # # -------------------------------------------------------------#####--#------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message