Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 09:23:53 -0500 From: "Sean O'Connell" <sean@stat.Duke.EDU> To: FreeBSD alpha <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Up and running Message-ID: <19981209092353.L27@isds.duke.edu>
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Hi All-
I wanted to let the list know that I was up and running. It was
a struggle, but I have FreeBSD/Alpha on an AlphaStation 200 4/166.
To install the machine, I used the kern.flp image from the
3.0-19981206-SNAP and the mfsroot.gz from the 3.0-19981127-SNAP
(from the mirror site) which I copied over the mfsroot.gz (after
renaming fs-image.gz) from the Dec SNAP. The mfsroot.gz from
the later SNAP freezes up in sysinstall on the serial terminal
(kermit + null modem from an x86 box).
I had a devil of a time getting the scsi to talk to any drive
(admittedly, I believe the first, a Seagate Hawk, may be shot,
but the old RZ25M failed over too). It wasn't until I used a
Seagate Barracuda that I was able to successfully get the disks
probed.
Could the tagged queueing that seems to be enabled be causing
problems with the older drives? It seemed to enable it even
on some very old disks. Not sure if this is a proverbial red
herring or not.
Secondly, it wasn't obvious to me that the installation was not
going to install boot blocks on the drive. So, thanks to Curtis
(ufkartfm@pacific.net) who pointed me toward the booting off of
the floppy and then using disklabel.
I think the following steps are what I would liked to have seen
somewhere (did I miss something, somewhere?).
1) boot machine from kernel image floppy
2) when it prompts for mfsroot, hit enter and let it find your
hard drive
3) mount -u /dev/da0a / {to get root mounted writeable since
the fstab is borked up}
4) change all of da0s1[a-h] entries in fstab to da0[a-h]
5) mount the rest of the partitions
6) disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/da0c
7) while you have machine up change, /dev/ttyd0 entry in
/etc/ttys, so you can actually log in on the serial console :)
ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure
to
ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 on secure
This box has a Mach64 in it, so the next trick will be getting
syscons/X working. Maybe it'll replace the DU box on my desk :)
Thanks,
S
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