From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 24 13: 1:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E7437B40C for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:01:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01886; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:01:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f7OK0gb81026; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:00:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15238.45674.743783.199295@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:00:42 -0400 (EDT) To: "Michael A. Smith" Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: install troubles right at the beginning In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010824170751.00a736f8@www.maiatech.com> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20010824170751.00a736f8@www.maiatech.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael A. Smith writes: > I've done lots of FreeBSD/i386 installs and several Linux/alpha installs, > but this is my first FreeBSD/alpha install. I've got a PWS433a that has run > RedHat6.2, SuSE6.3 and SuSE7.0 (768MB RAM, SRM-bootable Tekram SCSI card). > There have historically been some problems installing on machines that used to run linux. I've never heard of of waht you're seeing before, but it might be related. I suspect there may be some problem with the disklabel on the drive you're attempting to install onto. Hmm.. Are these disks with msdos style fdisk partition tables? Did linux boot from arc(or milo) or the SRM when it was booting from this disk? Try blowing away the partition table on the disk you're going to install FreeBSD on by dd'ing /dev/zero over the first meg or so of it before you attempt to install. If you're still having problems, can you look on the other vty (alt-Fx, I think its F2) and see if any newfs failed? & report back exactly what you see? Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message