From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 5 11:57:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A0E37B401 for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7503943E9C for ; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:57:06 -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 OAA12762; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:57:05 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id gB5JuZk94198; Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:56:35 -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: <15855.44915.670272.262170@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 14:56:35 -0500 (EST) To: David Richardson Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha fresh install problems In-Reply-To: <3DEF4851.3C6405D0@interbaun.com> References: <3DE4CE61.3628B9BC@interbaun.com> <3DEF4851.3C6405D0@interbaun.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Richardson writes: > > Can anyone here answer the questions I had? I didn't find anything when > I was searching the archives. Sounds newer versions of the boot loader are broken on old hardware like yours. I'd try minimally installing an older release (4.5, 4.6) and see if that works. If so, then do a binary upgrade to 4.7, but save your working 4.5 or 4.6 bootloader and copy it back into place before the installer reboots the system. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message