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Date:      Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:36:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>
To:        <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Wit's end (AS250 installation issues)
Message-ID:  <20010614203233.Y33392-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>

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I'm stuck on a problem, and hopefully some of the more-experienced Alpha
folk here can help.

I've come into an AlphaStation 250 4/266, and would like to run FreeBSD on
it.  It's got two SCSI disks in it, that show up as DKA0 and DKA300 in the
SRM BIOS, and a CD at DKA400.

With the 4.3-RELEASE Alpha ISO image, I can "boot DKA400" and get into the
installer.  The install goes great, I make my filesystem on the DKA300
disk, and install away.  After the installer is finished, the system halts
back to the >>> prompt.  Here's where it gets frustrating.

When I do "boot DKA300" from the SRM BIOS, it finds a valid boot block,
loads it, tries to load /boot/loader, and then dies with a "can't find
/boot/loader" error.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks,
Wade


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