From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 27 08:56:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07398 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:56:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pacific.net (pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07393 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:56:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ufkartfm@pacific.net) Received: from pacific.net (slime-lake.pacific.net [209.209.2.250]) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA03532; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:56:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <365E693F.65FEF6C2@pacific.net> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:56:31 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Multia - 3.0-19981124-SNAP - report References: <199811270829.AAA00656@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org MIKE (curtis shouted from across the net) T H A N K Y O U !!! (smile) IT WORKED. I am very happy to say I now have an FreeBSD/Alpha 3.0-19981124-SNAP running on my Multia VX42 I CAN (now) WRITE TO! I did run across a few things: # /sbin/disklabel -B da0 /sbin/disklabel: /usr/mdec/daboot: No such file or directory # ls -l /usr/mdec/ total 14 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6872 Nov 24 1998 boot1 and under the SRM console, because of above, I still get (on reboot): >>>boot -file kernel -flags a dka0 (boot dka0.0.0.6.0 -file kernel -flags a) no such file file open failed for kernel/dka0.0.0.6.0 and ....using 1124-SNAP kern.flp with the -flags a option for a reboot (pressing enter, when it asks for mfsroot disk) it produces the following [snipped]: swapon: adding /dev/da0b as swap device Automatic reboot in progress... /dev/rda0a: clean, 222393 free (16769 frags, 25703 blocks, 4.2% fragmentation) dmesg: kvm_read: kvm_read: Bad address -> (i know where this comes from) Starting final network daemons:. setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat setting a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout ldconfig: illegal option -- a usage: ldconfig [-Rmrsv] [-f hints_file] [dir | file ...] Initial rc.alpha initialization:. rc.alpha configuring syscons: blank_time/etc/rc.alpha: cannot open /dev/ttyv0: no such device or address and, ...if i do not set -flags option after the install and boot dva0 , it brings me to the prompt without any error messages. thanks again, very much, Mike.....n'best2u curtis Mike Smith wrote: > > Try: > > # mount /dev/da0a / > ... (other mounts as required) > # vi /etc/fstab > (remove 'sX' from device names) > # disklabel -B da0 > (should fix the inability to boot from dka0) > # reboot -- curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody I want Nobody to control my life! How about you? http://www.netvideo.com/nobody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message