From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 30 18:17:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA25426 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:17:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.simon-shapiro.org [209.86.126.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id SAA25409 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:17:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 5136 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Oct 1998 03:21:24 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199810310156.RAA03380@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:21:24 -0500 (EST) X-Face: (&r=uR0&yvh>h^ZL4"-TH61PD}/|Y'~58Z# Gz&BK'&uLAf:2wLb~L7YcWfau{;N(#LR2)\i.l8'ZqVhv~$rNx$]Om6Sv36S'\~5m/U'"i/L)&t$R0&?,)tm0l5xZ!\hZU^yMyCdt!KTcQ376cCkQ^Q_n.GH;Dd-q+ O51^+.K-1Kq?WsP9;cw-Ki+b.iY-5@3!YB5{I$h;E][Xlg*sPO61^5=:5k)JdGet,M|$"lq!1!j_>? $0Yc? Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: Installing Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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