From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 18 14:18:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09114 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:18:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles251.castles.com [208.214.165.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09107 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:18:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03042; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:15:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812182215.OAA03042@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wilko Bulte cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-alpha mailing list) Subject: Re: install using 19981208 snap In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 18 Dec 1998 19:21:23 +0100." <199812181821.TAA02195@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 14:15:48 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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