From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 2 6:57:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787F414C59 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 06:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA06707; Sun, 2 May 1999 14:57:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 14:57:17 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Kai Schmidt Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box In-Reply-To: <199905021151.NAA19718@karhu.hirvi.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 2 May 1999, Kai Schmidt wrote: > On 02.05.99, 13:39:04 Doug Rabson wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > >> When I insert my kern floppy and do I boot dva0 which is my floppy drive, > >> it > >> complains about a bootstrap error. > >> The error says: > >> (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0) > >> block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block > >> bootstrap failure > >> Any hints? > > Exactly where did you download these boot floppies from? > > Hmmh, I can't remember exactly but it was either from ftp.freebsd.org or > from ftp.de.freebsd.org and there from the stable branch. > > I read that the floppies on the CD are broken. That is true. I need to know which directory on the ftp site you downloaded them from. The ones from snapshots/alpha/4.0-19990413-CURRENT should work fairly well. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message