Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:42:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <199810310242.SAA03797@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:42:17 EST." <XFMail.981030224217.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
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> > > Bugger. I wonder what's going wrong. > > My guess: The disklabel that you or me think is correct, is not. the > correct one is that which makes the boot/kernel floppy. Probably some > offset at the beginning to accomodate the boot sectors, etc. No, that's not it. > > > 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. > > Any VGA card? Or this unavailable (to me) DEC creation? Any VGA card should do. Make sure you plug a keyboard in too (or the SRM console will still use the serial console. I'm using a nasty ISA Cirrus card in one machine and a old S3 PCI card in another. The SRM has x86 emulation built in so it can run the card BIOS (ick!). > > > 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. > > 3.0 with sources as of last night. We are getting close.... Ok. It might be puking over the Extra Magic SRM bootable disk checksum. -- \\ 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
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