Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:44:29 -0400 From: System Admin <abeaupre@chemcomp.com> To: 'FreeBSD Alpha' <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Can't install on DEC Alpha 600au Message-ID: <01BFBB5F.CBB29970@sylvester>
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Hi!
Please help a desperate FBSD user to get away from the grip of M$ software! (I'm writing this in "Windows Messaging", sorry for the inconvenience...)
I'm trying to install FBSD alpha to a DEC alpha 600au (1Gb RAM, 2 SCSI disks of 8Gb).
What I did:
- Installed a SRM firmware console
- booted from kern.flp and mfsroot.flp disks taken from ftp.freebsd.org/.../alpha/4.0-RELEASE/...
- ran sysinstall and tried to install
What I got
- binary distributions installed successfully
- "Unable to copy /kernel into place!"
On VTY2:
cp: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
I get the same when I try to run some of the installed binaries via the "emergency holographic shell" ('cause I can't get a fixit floppy to work).
I even tried to copy the kernel in place by myself ("cd /dist && echo kernel | cpio -p /") and at boot up:
...
Loading /boot/loader
-
halted CPU 0
halt code = 2
kernel stack not valid halt
PC = 0
>>>
Also, when I try to install X distributions, the box just makes a buzzing noise and reboots after synching discs (probably a panic).
I'm beginning to wonder... How can one tell apart a I386 CDROM from a Alpha one? I got this one from a friend, and maybe he could have downloaded the wrong image, as I could not boot straight from the CD.
Anyways, if anyone can help, this would be greatly appreciated. I'm kinda tired of running NT on these beautiful boxes.. :)
Thank you.
Antoine Beaupre
Sys admin
Chemical Computing Group
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