From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 30 18:43:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29366 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:43:47 -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 SAA29361 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:43:46 -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 SAA03797; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:42:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810310242.SAA03797@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:42:17 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:42:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > 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