Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:05:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Bill Woods mail <bwoods2@uswest.net> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot disk problems Message-ID: <200010072105.e97L5Hh04220@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Oct 2000 13:54:37 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010071333590.93259-100000@mail.gplsucks.org>
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Unless someone snuck some code in while I wasn't looking, there is no
part of the installation process that says "NO HARD DRIVE".
Would you mind reporting the actual error message? Your vivid
imagination may make for wonderful bedtime stories for small children,
but it doesn't actually help us any at all.
> Well, this doesnt make it easy, says hit any key to reboot, I hit
> scroll lock and it starts to reboot) from what I
> can see, It doesnt look like it, I see this for sym:
>
> I honestly cant tell, damm thing scrolls to fast. Doesnt seem like it is
> though.
>
>
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> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, David O'Brien wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:17:12AM -0700, Bill Woods mail wrote:
> > > OK, I have an Alphastation 200 4/233 that is presently running 4.1-stable
> > > just fine. I figured, I want to play with -current, so I grab the boot
> > > disks from current.freebsd.org and boot em...it says NO HARD DRIVE....
> >
> > Boot again, and then use the scroll back feature (using the scroll lock
> > key and up arrow; or scroll bar on your xterm if serial console). Look
> > to see if the `sym' driver attached or not.
> >
> > --
> > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
> > Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
> >
> >
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