From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 2 23:34:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68AF914E0A for ; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:34:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA10726; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:34:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA84287; Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:34:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:34:01 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Greg Lehey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: bdevs have been assimilated. Message-ID: <19991202233401.A84265@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19991125133001.64729@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> <19991202202419.01433@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991202202419.01433@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>; from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com on Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:24:19PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Dec 02, 1999 at 08:24:19PM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote: > Can't you boot from the old kernel? Or have you already wiped the > bdevs? If so, how about the fixit floppy/CD-ROM? At 2MB the Alpha fixit floppy isn't very useful. Nor is there a live files system for the Alpha. Nor can you even boot sysinstall and get a shell if you use a serial console. All-in-all recovery on the Alpha is "lacking". -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message