From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Aug 9 19:58:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41A8637B401 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 19:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA05902; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:58:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f7A2wLM26493; Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:58:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15219.19917.412145.909189@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 22:58:21 -0400 (EDT) To: Jens Arnfast Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaServer 4100 boot/install problem In-Reply-To: <5.0.1.4.0.20010810000600.0303aef0@mail.arnfast.dk> References: <5.0.1.4.0.20010810000600.0303aef0@mail.arnfast.dk> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jens Arnfast writes: > ok.. I think we've tried it all... 4.2R boot-cd, 4.2R boot-floppies, 4.3R > boot-cd, 4.3R boot-floppies and 4.3R > "copy-boot.flp-to-the-start-of-the-disk-trick" and nothing worked ... is > there no possible way to install FreeBSD on an AlphaServer 4100 (without > installing the system on another alpha an moving the disks) ? .. please.. > don't force us into running NetBSD og *shiver* AlphaLinux :-) > > Any help appreciated 4100s and other "big iron" machines tweak a bug in the bootloader that's been used in the 4.x releases. The problem has been fixed in -current, but hasn't yet been merged back. You could grab the 5.0 kern.flp from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/alpha/5.0-20010721-CURRENT/floppies/kern.flp and replace the kernel with the one from the 4.x kern.flp Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message