Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 19:41:05 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: yvictorovich@optima-hyper.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem booting Alpha AS1000A Message-ID: <15482.55713.882795.291333@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <3C7AD869.343872B9@optima-hyper.com> References: <E052D8D86575D511A0E1009027D3B86218AE79@hqsmail.SNET> <E052D8D86575D511A0E1009027D3B862150886@hqsmail.SNET> <15482.54141.628252.60192@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3C7AD869.343872B9@optima-hyper.com>
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Yuri Victorovich writes: > > > 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. > > I figured that out already. > I didn't know that -- it wasn't anywhere in docs I read and > isn't obvious. > > And also that's strange at least. Why / should be the first > on Alpha and shouldn't on i386? Because the alpha bootloader was written by people who had never considered putting / anywhere but first. If you'd like to make the bootloader smart enough to handle reading the disklabel and finding the root partition, we'd be very happy to accept patches. In any case, I'm very glad you've got your machine installed! Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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