From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 13 1:50: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.pcom.de (mail1.pcom.de [194.25.152.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D0737B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 01:49:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from tkuehn@websurf.pcom.de (212.184.127.11) by mail1.pcom.de with MERCUR-SMTP/POP3/IMAP4-Server (v3.30.03 AS-0098309) for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:48:21 +0100 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 01 11:56:49 GMT From: tkuehn@websurf.pcom.de (Torsten Kuehn) Reply-To: tkuehn@websurf.pcom.de (Torsten Kuehn) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: wilko@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: Torsten Kuehn's PMMail v1.1 Subject: 4.2 fails to install on AS200 4/166 Message-Id: <010213104821116800@mail1.pcom.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Several efforts to install FreeBSD 4.2 on an AlphaStation200 4/166 (latest SRM 7.something) remained unsuccessful: 1.) Setting up a serial console was straightforward. Necessity using it is mentioned in Wilko's comprehensive 'hardware.txt' compilation, as my AS200 has a ZLXp-E1 card (Linux folks use TGA fb which switches to STD VGA res, potentially leaving fixed freq. Monitor out of sync). Using MGA MIL-I with OpenFW v3 shows no display at all (only PPC code?). 2.) Kernel boots successfully from CD #1, drive at SCSI ID 3. SCSI Disk at ID 2 was intended as installation target (with BSD labelled Disks at ID 0&1 with Tru64/ Linux on them). As soon as console selection is performed, an error msg ('wrong disklabel' something) is displayed, and kernel forces reboot. I considered 'cannot mount root' problem from JKH's 'trouble.txt', but system is already installed in that case, and his guide doesn't seem to be alpha-specific (?). 3.) Only disconnecting Disks at ID 0&1 led me further in the install menu (drive bay is tight; temporarily removed both internal disks and mounted target disk at ID 0 internally). Writing disklabels, initializing & mounting filesystems performs successfully. But, during package extraction, install stalls, notably at different points of installation. While this sounds like a SCSI related problem, I re-verified if cable-lengths (only internal drives) termination etc. were good (they did). Also tried to fetch packages via Network, but system hung as before. AS200 remained completely dead for hours, CD Rom could be ejected (in case of local install - disc not locked by mount?), and would only recover after hard reset. Torsten To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message