From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 11 12:46:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from bobino.chemcomp.com (bobino.sefmedia.com [207.164.6.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9839137B8E9 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 12:46:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abeaupre@chemcomp.com) Received: from ip208.montreal21.dialup.canada.psi.net (ip208.montreal21.dialup.canada.psi.net [154.5.100.208]) by bobino.sefmedia.com (NTMail 5.05.0002/NT6102.00.ff403942) with ESMTP id vapgaaaa for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:46:36 -0400 Received: from sylvester [192.1.1.19] by chemcomp.com (FTGate 2, 2, 0, 1); Thu, 11 May 00 15:46:50 -0400 Received: by sylvester with Microsoft Mail id <01BFBB5F.CBB29970@sylvester>; Thu, 11 May 2000 15:44:30 -0400 Message-ID: <01BFBB5F.CBB29970@sylvester> From: System Admin To: 'FreeBSD Alpha' Subject: Can't install on DEC Alpha 600au Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 15:44:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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=20 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 =3D 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC =3D 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message