From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 25 13:53:47 2002 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 AA80637B422 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 13:53:15 -0800 (PST) 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 QAA07816; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:53:14 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g1PLqiH01921; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:52:44 -0500 (EST) (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: <15482.45612.227418.191162@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:52:44 -0500 (EST) To: Jarkko Santala Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems booting freebsd-alpha-4.5 from IDE on PC164 In-Reply-To: <20020225132247.U59392-100000@trillian.santala.org> References: <20020225132247.U59392-100000@trillian.santala.org> 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 You probably didn't put your root partition (a) first on the disk. You need to re-install and make your root partition be first on the disk. Drew Eg, you want it to look something like this: # disklabel /dev/ad2 Password: # /dev/ad2: type: ESDI disk: ad0 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 5005 sectors/unit: 80418240 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 65*) b: 4194304 1048576 swap # (Cyl. 65*-326*) c: 80418240 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -5005*) e: 6291456 5242880 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 326*-717*) f: 16777216 11534336 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 717*-1762*) g: 37748736 28311552 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1762*-4112*) h: 14357952 66060288 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 4112*-5005*) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message