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Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues)
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I ran through the installer again, and I set the disk up like so:

/dev/da0a - /
/dev/da0b - swap

No other partitions.

However, when I "boot dka0" from the SRM, it still dies with the failure
to find /boot/loader

Ideas?

--Wade

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>
> 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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