From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 11 17:52:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 831AF37B502 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA29014; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:52:03 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:52:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Terry Lambert Cc: Andrew Gallatin , Pawel Nogas , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? SRM doesn't grok MSDOS partitions, and SRM is the only supported boot montor. > > > > - 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? You're talking to the wrong folks on this one. Take it up with JKH && Mike Smith.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message