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From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Subject: install using 19981208 snap
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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.

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.

Wilko
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