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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: Re: install using 19981208 snap
In-Reply-To: <199812182215.OAA03042@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 18, 98 02:15:48 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:33:04 +0100 (CET)
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As Mike Smith wrote...
> > I finally had time to try installing the 19981208 snap on my axp33.
> > 
> > Sysinstall seems to be hapilly doing its job (via the kernel & mfsroot
> > floppies) and pulls the install bits from NFS. Looks OK.
> > 
> > But when booting the newly installed harddisk I get: block 0 is not
> > a valid boot block.
> 
> Read the notes that everyone else has posted about having to install 

Everyone, like myself trying to get rid of NetBSD boot bits that is ;-)

> the bootblock manually before rebooting after the install.  This is a 
> still-extant bug in libdisk.

When I posted I could not search the list archives for some reason. 
Simply did not work. Ah well, should have tried again later I suppose.

> > What makes me suspicious is that sysinstall reports a 255/255/63
> > geometry. Is this OK for a 2Gb disk? What I mean: does sysinstall
> > on the alpha use this translation? I had expected it would use the
> > values the drive returns. There is no BIOS translation stuff (ala PCs)
> > that I'm aware of.
> 
> Geometry issues can be completely ignored for FreeBSD/AXP at the 
> moment; neither the SRM nor FreeBSD give a damn about them.

Right, that is what I expected.

Works now with the boot installed by a manual disklabel -B

Wilko
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