Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:11:44 -0800 From: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing boot manager Message-ID: <19990309161144.A55035@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903092017130.23337-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>; from Doug Rabson on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:19:41PM %2B0000 References: <19990309112133.A52866@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903092017130.23337-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:19:41PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Steve Sizemore wrote:
>
> > Trying to install any flavor of BSD on my AlphaPC 164LX. So far
> > FreeBSD seems to come closest, but...
> >
> > After several attempts to install from CDROM (3.1) and various ftp
> > distributions, I finally had success installing the current (4.0)
> > snapshot. The only error message that I got was that the compat22
> > package failed, which I guess isn't surprising.
> >
> > However, the machine won't boot - it can't find /boot/loader. Why
> > wasn't that installed, and how do I install it?
>
> Can you tell me exactly which 4.0 snapshot you installed? It might be
> useful to list the contents of /boot from the emergency shell after
> another test installation.
Yesterday I installed 206 from ftp2.freebsd.org. Today that one was
gone, so I switched to 304, which is the one that resulted in my
email, above.
Since then, either the network or server performance has been so bad
that I haven't been able to reinstall it. I had to go back to 206 from
ftp.freebsd.org. (Why don't the mirrors all have the same directory
structures and snapshots?) I just finished installing that one.
/boot has boot1, loader, and netboot, which are all "MS Windows COFF
Unknown CPU" files. There is also a help file. I hope that the "Unknown
CPU" is not Intel...
Well, I just booted it, and viola! :-)
Looks like the 0204 snapshot works, and the 0304 is broken.
Steve
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