From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Jun 14 11:40: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02BE137C328 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:40:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA09528; Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006141840.LAA09528@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Cc: From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: alpha/17642: FreeBSD/alpha 4.0 RELEASE installation fails with cant find init Reply-To: Wilko Bulte Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR alpha/17642; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Wilko Bulte 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 . 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 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 -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl - Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message