Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 16:27:34 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First shot at Alpha ... hangs on kern.flp ... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102191625000.20066-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0102192020200.1999-100000@mobile.hub.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hmm- Marc- sorry. We've had problems with SRM booting of flooppies on a number
of different systems- usually restricted to the 4100- but it looks like you're
not having a happy time either. We frankly have no idea really why this
occurs other than that we're asking a tad bit more out of memory space because
of the forth loader than other primary bootstraps seem to do.
The quickest way around this is to take the disk you want to install on and dd
boot.flp (both kern.flp && mfsroot.flp) onto the front of it from some other
system and boot that. Embarrassing, but there it is.
>
> We got an Alpha awhile back that I'm trying to dual-boot into FreeBSD ...
> I know soooo little about this thing, being primarily x86/Sparc all my
> life ... when I do a 'boot dva0', I see:
>
> "Digital Ultimate Workstation 533au2 Console V5.8-2, 26 Jul 2000"
>
> come up ... the front LCD states "Model 533au2" ...
>
> It gets as far as:
>
> FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 1.0
> (jkh@...)
> Memory: 524288 k
> /
>
> and then it hangs ... looking at the floppy after ~5min of trying to be
> patient, th elight goes on and off, as if its still reading the drive, but
> the '/' no longer turns or anything ...
>
> I don't even know where to start debugging this, unfortunately ... help?
>
> Thanks ...
>
> Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
>
>
> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
> with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.4.21.0102191625000.20066-100000>