Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 20:19:41 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Steve Sizemore <steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing boot manager Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903092017130.23337-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19990309112133.A52866@cmpharm.ucsf.edu>
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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Steve Sizemore wrote: > Trying to install any flavor of BSD on my AlphaPC 164LX. So far > FreeBSD seems to come closest, but... > > After several attempts to install from CDROM (3.1) and various ftp > distributions, I finally had success installing the current (4.0) > snapshot. The only error message that I got was that the compat22 > package failed, which I guess isn't surprising. > > However, the machine won't boot - it can't find /boot/loader. Why > wasn't that installed, and how do I install it? Can you tell me exactly which 4.0 snapshot you installed? It might be useful to list the contents of /boot from the emergency shell after another test installation. > > Also, I'm wondering why every time I boot the installation disks, it > wants to repartition my disk. Especially after my last install, which > seems to have gone to completion, the partition info (as well as > populated file systems) should be on the disk, but sysinstall doesn't see > it. I know about this but I haven't been able to fix it yet. Its quite hard debugging libdisk when it only seems to go wrong when sysinstall uses it :-(. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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