From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 5 23:31:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA27665 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:31:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp5.portal.net.au [202.12.71.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA27660 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:31:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA02969; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 23:28:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812060728.XAA02969@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mark Turpin cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multia - Install success - 3.0-19981125-SNAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 22:29:40 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:28:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > After an extended period (about 4 hours) of trying to find two > good 3.5" floppies I successfully installed FreeBSD/Alpha on my Multia. > Not too difficult, just took a long time. > > A couple of things I have questions on... > > I get an FDC: Data overrun or underrun error while booting the kern.flp. > It didn't seem to be any problem, just an annoyance. Is this expected or > might I have some hardware problem. It's common for the Multia; they seem to have very dodgy floppy hardware. > Next question, How was the newfs done for the kern.flp image? However > that was done it is the same way you need to make the mfsroot > disk. I had to do the following to get the alpha to read the mfsroot.gz > disk: > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 > mount /dev/fd0a /mnt > rm -rf /mnt/* > cp mfsroot.gz /mnt > umount /mnt > > I tried fdformat/disklabel/newfs about 5 different ways and it never found > mfsroot.gz on the disk. I don't understand why this is going wrong. If you have a chance to look at the UFS code in libstand and try a few debugging printfs, I would be eternally grateful. > I have a webpage that documents my process of installing the system. it's > at http://www.mainstreettech.com/~mturpin/alpha.html Thanks; are you interested in expanding this into a general FreeBSD/AXP install guide? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message