From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 19 04:08:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90BF916A4CE for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 04:08:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.gobinjf.be (ns.gobinjf.be [62.197.79.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F100C43D55 for ; Wed, 19 May 2004 04:08:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gobin@gobinjf.be) Received: from ns.kyrian.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.gobinjf.be (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i4JB7juW077043; Wed, 19 May 2004 13:07:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gobin@gobinjf.be) Received: from localhost (gobin@localhost) by ns.kyrian.be (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) with ESMTP id i4JB7i5R077040; Wed, 19 May 2004 13:07:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gobin@gobinjf.be) X-Authentication-Warning: ns.kyrian.be: gobin owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:07:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Jean-Francois Gobin X-X-Sender: gobin@ns To: M Gollihue In-Reply-To: <005c01c43d21$d6c3ae60$6a0aa8c0@sassie.net> Message-ID: <20040519130709.Q77039@ns> References: <005c01c43d21$d6c3ae60$6a0aa8c0@sassie.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:08:03 -0000 Hmmmm ... Can you compare the geometry values as given by Redhat and by the partitionning tool of freebsd ? JF On Tue, 18 May 2004, M Gollihue wrote: > Hello, all! > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on an AlphaServer 1000a/400/256Mb. It > gets through the initial configuration just fine, however, upon getting to > the place where it attempts to download from FTP...it downloads the first 10 > blocks of the distribution then stops. The error message on VTY2 says > "Attempt to write beyond the end of the drive." > > I have a Mylex 960 card with two 9Gb drives attached, partitioned 6Gb > data/1Gb swap/1Gb temp. Anyone else experience this problem? The system > works fine under Red Hat. > > I tried to load FBSD 5.2.1, but I get a machine bugcheck and it halts the > system. But that is for another day. > > Thanks, > Michael Gollihue > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > ---------- Jean-Francois Gobin - Administrateur gobinjf.be http://www.gobinjf.be mailto:gobin@gobinjf.be