Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:48:39 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: pnogas@amu.edu.pl (Pawel Nogas), freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from "Andrew Gallatin" at Oct 11, 2000 09:06:30 AM
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Andrew Gallatin writes: > - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a) > -- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks. How is this possible, using the system tools, if Alpha cannot boot from it? Are they broken? > - You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha > distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha How is this possible? Same question: is the install process broken, in that it actually permits this to happen, ever? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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