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To: Carlos Santos <cajo@mail.pt>
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Subject: Re: Help with Alpha Server 2100A
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Carlos Santos writes:
 > Hi again...
 > 
 > This happens when loading the loader, i get the message :
 > 
 > jumping to bootstrap code
 > Loading /boot/loader
 > 
 > and after a few seconds returns to the SRM console with the error
 > described.
 > 

Can you describe how your partitions are layed out on the disk?
Note that the disk must be "dangerously dedicated" (eg, no FAT slices)
and that the BSD "A" partition must be the first one on the disk in
order for the loader to be found.

Drew

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