Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:13:19 +0100 From: Carlos Santos <cajo@mail.pt> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with Alpha Server 2100A Message-ID: <20010427151321.A006637B423@hub.freebsd.org>
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I'm going to try again with the correct partition. Thanks a lot for your quick answers, and sorry for the time spent due to this dummy error i made :-) I'll post the result after the new install... Thanks again Drew... Carlos Santos > Carlos Santos writes: > > Ok... so my config is something like this : > > > > I have 7 x 2 GB hard drives with Raid 5 which means that i have one disk of > > 12 Gb. > > > > I have one swap partition of 256 Mb (twice the Ram) > > and the remaining 11,7 Gb to FreeBSD. > > > > mlxd0a SWAP 256 MB SWAP > > mlxd0b / 11786 MB UFS N > > > > So the problem might be due to this misconfigured slices , right ? > > Misconfigured partitions, yes. The bootloader really should be able > to deal with this, but it can't. > > > > > I'm going to try again, putting the "a" slide first. > > Wich would be the best configuration for the slices ? > > > > The "a" partition should always be first. If you're unsure how to lay > things out, you might want to let sysinstall do it for you from the > parition menu. > > That said, I don't think there are any problems with putting all of > FreeBSD in a single 11.7GB partition, as long as its first on the disk. > > Drew -- mail.pt - Um mail para todos - em http://mail.pt/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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