Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:21:24 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <XFMail.981030222124.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199810310156.RAA03380@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith, On 31-Oct-98 you wrote: ... > > To clarify, I am putting the mfsroot.gz on a floppy. It appears as if > > the > > kernel (both the 27th and the 29th) want /mfsroot. > > I presume you're booting the kern.flp image? Yup. > > I am doing: > > > > fdformat -f 1440 fd0.1440 > > disklabel -w -r fd0.1440 floppy3 > > newfs -t 2 -u 18 -l 1 -i 65536 /dev/rfd0 > > > > (Streight off Jordan's install.txt) and it seems great under i386 > > FreeBSD. > > That's correct. It should work fine on the alpha (it just did here). > The problem is *probably* memory-related; at the moment the bootstrap > on the Alpha is really strapped for memory. (after some more digging) That's probably not it; I did ls on the kernel floppy. the boot sees its contents fine. So, Smart Simon (r) does this: On the i386 machine: dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=18k mount /dev/fd0 /mnt rm -rf /mnt/* cp mfsroot.gz /mnt umount /mnt On the alpha machine: ls /mfsboot.gz Perfect! Well, almost. Now the kernel starts and dies after mmclock0: ... sc0: at 0x60 irq1 on isa0 I have only one Alpha thus am stuck. Machine is a Personal workstation 433au with 512MB of RAM, 2MB L2 cache, a SCSI disk, CD-ROM, no video card of any kind, and a floppy. We are Almoooooost there. I need this to work to get the 64bit DPT FCAL controllers going.... BTW, disklabel on the kernel boot floppy does not yield anything but an ioctl error: disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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