Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:52:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AS 1200 Install Problems Message-ID: <3AA6AD9A.0002AD.49488@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
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> Michael Richards writes:
>>
>> FreeBSD Alpha SRM boot disk, Revision 1.0
>> (jkh@rawhide.osd.bsdi.com, Tue Nov 21 03:14:37 GMT 2000)
>> Memory: 262144 k
>> failed to send read to dka600.6.0.1.1
>> device dka600.6.0.1.1 no longer valid
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Is the disk slow? This happens with CDROMs too, so perhaps it has
> something to do with the speed of the media. I think it might
> have something to do with our loader reading config files a byte
> at a time (as witnessed on a netboot via tcpdump).
The disk is slow, but not _that_ slow. It's an old HDD that I pulled
from an AS6000 that's borked.
Since I dd'd the image onto the hard drive, how can I just replace
the boot loader?
-Michael
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