From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 6 21:14:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B073937B401 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D37B43F3F for ; Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:14:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aziegenfus@mindspring.com) Received: from dialup-67.74.224.106.dial1.baltimore1.level3.net ([67.74.224.106] helo=opus.arz.com) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19kcAV-000196-00 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 00:14:27 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:14:12 -0400 From: Allen Ziegenfus To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20030807001412.26fea1c3.aziegenfus@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.0 (GTK+ 1.2.9; alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Can't boot 5.1 install media X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 04:14:30 -0000 I've been trying to install FreeBSD on my Alpha to no avail. I have a PC164LX with SRM v5.8. I downloaded 5.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso as a starting point. I downloaded this over several nights (using wget -c) and the md5 checksum matched up. (I hope the new smaller iso image is available soon.) Then I tried booting the CD. I have 4 IDE drives in the Alpha, 3 hard drives and a CD burner. At first I tried booting off the CD drive on the second IDE channel but it would display an error like, "cannot find device" -- maybe there is some limitation that you can only boot off of dqa0 or dqa1? So I moved the CD drive to dqa0 and then I get some promising messages but after the "jumping to bootstrap" message it just hangs. I also can't seem to boot my RH 7.1 media, so who knows what that problem is. Then I tried making floppies. No matter how I try to copy the floppy image (from RH Linux), I get a "invalid boot block" when trying boot dva0 from SRM. I can still boot off some older linux floppies. dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/fd0 I'm sure (or I hope) there is something very obvious I'm missing. Any ideas? I guess the next step is to try to download the floppy images separately. Allen --