Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant find init Message-ID: <200006141840.LAA09528@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR alpha/17642; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, dkleinh@phy.ucsf.edu
Cc:
Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant
find init
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 20:38:26 +0200
Received the following information <see quote>. For the time being
I've commited a warning to both 4.x and -current in INSTALL.TXT for the
alpha. At least people have an opportunity to -know- what hurts them
(assuming they read docs ;-)
Wilko
<quote>
I had seen those posts and as a matter of fact, last week I wiped all my
disks of BSD disk labels and was able to install. I don't know where
this
information should be put, but I think it definitely needs to be
documented until it is fixed. The problem seems to be the existence of
a
BSD disklabel on other disks, the disklabel can be from Linux, NetBSD,
OpenBSD, Digital/Tru64 Unix - doesn't matter -- the FreeBSD install will
give the "can't find init" error. I installed NT and created NTFS
partitions on my disks and then was able to install FreeBSD/alpha.
Dirk
</quote?>
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