Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 10:33:04 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install using 19981208 snap Message-ID: <199812200933.KAA28577@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199812182215.OAA03042@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 18, 98 02:15:48 pm"
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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 _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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