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To: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org>
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Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues)
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H. Wade Minter writes:
 > 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?

You need to make the "a" partition the root parition and make sure
that it appears first on the disk.  If "a" is not first, our primary
bootblocks will be unable to find the loader.

Hope this helps,

Drew

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