From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 11 6: 6:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B5937B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA18794; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:06:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9BD6Uw72451; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:06:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 09:06:30 -0400 (EDT) To: Pawel Nogas Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 In-Reply-To: <00101113453803.02358@SpiderWeb> References: <00101113453803.02358@SpiderWeb> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14820.25415.513392.588558@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pawel Nogas writes: > > I have tried to install FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233. > I am having the following problems: <...> > Release 4.0, 4.1 - system have been installed sucessfuly, but i can't boot it: > How did you install it? There's a few things that could have gone wrong that might result in what you're seeing: - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a) -- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks. - You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha - Your loader got clobbered or otherwise corrupted. The easiest thing to try is copying the /boot/loader file from the boot floppy into /boot/loader in your root partition. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message