Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 18:31:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "H. Wade Minter" <minter@lunenburg.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Wit's end (AS250 installation issues) Message-ID: <20010615183014.X45884-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com> In-Reply-To: <20010615181053.W42492-100000@ashburn.skiltech.com>
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Replying to my own message.... I let the installer "auto-partition" the disk, and it set up /, /var, /usr, and swap, with a 100M / on da0a, and guess what? It worked fine. The system booted right up. Any ideas as to what the difference was? --Wade On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, H. Wade Minter wrote: > 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 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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