Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:16:48 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, (Pawel Nogas) <pnogas@amu.edu.pl>, (Andrew Gallatin) <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <XFMail.001012111648.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>
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On 12-Oct-00 Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin writes: >> - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not >> da0a) >> -- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks. > > How is this possible, using the system tools, if Alpha cannot boot > from it? Are they broken? This shouldn't be possible. The fdisk command isn't even compiled on the alpha, and in the alpha version of sysinstall all MBR handling code is #ifdef'd out. >> - You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha >> distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha > > How is this possible? Same question: is the install process broken, > in that it actually permits this to happen, ever? Hmmm. If you booted from alpha floppies and tried to use the x86 CD I'm not sure it would catch the error. If you booted the CD then you certainly can't install from the wrong one unless you sadistically swap the CD's after booting. > Terry Lambert -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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