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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:57:47 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AS 1200 Install Problems
Message-ID:  <15014.44763.297535.8869@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3AA6AD9A.0002AD.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
References:  <3AA6AD9A.0002AD.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca>

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Michael Richards writes:
 > >
 > > Michael Richards writes:
 > >>
 > >> FreeBSD Alpha SRM boot disk, Revision 1.0
 > >> (jkh@rawhide.osd.bsdi.com, Tue Nov 21 03:14:37 GMT 2000)
 > >> Memory: 262144 k
 > >> failed to send read to dka600.6.0.1.1
 > >> device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid
 > >>
 > >> Anyone have any ideas?
 > >
 > > Is the disk slow?  This happens with CDROMs too, so perhaps it has
 > > something to do with the speed of the media.  I think it might
 > > have something to do with our loader reading config files a byte
 > > at a time (as witnessed on a netboot via tcpdump).
 > 
 > The disk is slow, but not _that_ slow. It's an old HDD that I pulled 
 > from an AS6000 that's borked. 
 > 
 > Since I dd'd the image onto the hard drive, how can I just replace 
 > the boot loader? 

2 ways:

a) use vnconfig to mount the floppy on a FreeBSD machine; replace the
loader, unmount & unconfigure the vn device & dd the resulting image onto the disk

b) mount that hard disk on a freebsd machine & replace the loader.

Drew

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