Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:42:17 -0500 (EST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <XFMail.981030224217.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <199810310224.SAA03631@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith, On 31-Oct-98 you wrote: ... > > On the i386 machine: > > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=18k > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > > rm -rf /mnt/* > > cp mfsroot.gz /mnt > > umount /mnt > > > > On the alpha machine: > > > > ls > > > > /mfsboot.gz > > > > > > Perfect! > > Bugger. I wonder what's going wrong. My guess: The disklabel that you or me think is correct, is not. the correct one is that which makes the boot/kernel floppy. Probably some offset at the beginning to accomodate the boot sectors, etc. > > Well, almost. Now the kernel starts and dies after > > > > mmclock0: ... > > sc0: at 0x60 irq1 on isa0 > > That's a known gotcha. Put a video card in it until syscons is fixed. Any VGA card? Or this unavailable (to me) DEC creation? > > BTW, disklabel on the kernel boot floppy does not yield anything but an > > ioctl error: > > > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > > Is this a 2.2 or 3.0 system? If the latter, you *might* have the Bruce > Broken Disklabel problem, in which case you should update. 3.0 with sources as of last night. We are getting close.... Thanx for all this help... Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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