Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:15:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-alpha mailing list) Subject: Re: install using 19981208 snap Message-ID: <199812182215.OAA03042@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:21:23 %2B0100." <199812181821.TAA02195@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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. Read the notes that everyone else has posted about having to install the bootblock manually before rebooting after the install. This is a still-extant bug in libdisk. > 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. Geometry issues can be completely ignored for FreeBSD/AXP at the moment; neither the SRM nor FreeBSD give a damn about them. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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