From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 7 13:58:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9699537B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:58:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA11724; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:58:17 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.2/8.9.1) id f27Lvl126471; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:57:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15014.44763.297535.8869@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:57:47 -0500 (EST) To: "Michael Richards" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AS 1200 Install Problems In-Reply-To: <3AA6AD9A.0002AD.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca> References: <3AA6AD9A.0002AD.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message