From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 4 14:32:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03122 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:32:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shadow.spel.com (elevator.cablenet-va.com [208.206.84.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03098 for ; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 14:32:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mturpin@spel.com) Received: from mturpin (ip194.spel.com [208.226.39.194]) by shadow.spel.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA19553; Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:29:25 GMT (envelope-from mturpin@spel.com) Message-ID: <002301be508c$6b153cb0$c227e2d0@mturpin.spel.com> From: "Mark Turpin" To: "Alain G. Fabry" , Subject: Re: Install procedure of FreeBSD on Alpha Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:19:23 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >the system then tries to access the floppy, and returns: > >block 0 of dva0 is not a valid boot block >bootstrap failure > You might not have the alpha boot disk? Right now I don't think that the alpha install disk works. It'll boot but it won't install if the disk doesn't have a FreeBSD/alpha disklabel. The most recent SNAP available on ftp.freebsd.org is 3.0-19990114-SNAP, it's in /pub/FreeBSD/releases/snapshots/alpha. You can get the disk and try but I think it's broken. You'll need the boot.flp and the mfsroot.flp images to boot. You can then do a boot dva0 and it will prompt you for the mfsroot floppy. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message