From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 30 18:25:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26705 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:25:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26699 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:25:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03631; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:24:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810310224.SAA03631@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:21:24 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:24:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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! Bugger. I wonder what's going wrong. > Well, almost. Now the kernel starts and dies after > > mmclock0: ... > sc0: at 0x60 irq1 on isa0 That's a known gotcha. Put a video card in it until syscons is fixed. > BTW, disklabel on the kernel boot floppy does not yield anything but an > ioctl error: > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument Is this a 2.2 or 3.0 system? If the latter, you *might* have the Bruce Broken Disklabel problem, in which case you should update. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message