From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Feb 25 16:15:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CF5237B402 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:15:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA12248; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:15:23 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g1Q0Erx02143; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:14:53 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15482.54141.628252.60192@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:14:53 -0500 (EST) To: Cc: Subject: RE: Problem booting Alpha AS1000A In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Yuri Victorovich writes: > > You've omitted several critical bits of info which might allow people > > to answer your question. > > a) what version of FreeBSD are you using > > b) what media are you attempting to boot from > FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. Installed purely from boot floppy and ftp.FreeBSD.org. > I am booting from the first SCSI HD. It's one more SCSI drive installed. > Installation went w/out any problems. > > > I'm going to guess you've just successfully installed and can't boot > > off the disk. Did you put your root partition in "a" and make that > > the first parition on the disk? > Yes, "a" is the only partition. Fist slice there -- swap, second -- "/". This is your problem:---------------------------------^^^^^ / MUST BE FIRST. You cannot & must not use slicese, only real BSD partition. This really needs to be emphasized somewhere in a FAQ. Lots of people make the same mistake you did. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message