From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 25 12:27:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D541515C80 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA51708; Tue, 25 May 1999 20:28:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:28:09 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Eugene Aleynikov Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation In-Reply-To: <374ADC54.C0B02A6B@lioninc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 May 1999, Eugene Aleynikov wrote: > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > On Mon, 24 May 1999, Eugene Aleynikov wrote: > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm very disappointed that i cant install FreeBSD on my Alpha Station > > > 200 > > > I can succesfully install openbsd and linux but freebsd disklabel says: > > > da0: rejecting BSD label: raw partition offset != slice offset > > > da0: start 0, end 4178873, size 4178873 > > > da0c: start 2046000, end 2045999, size 0 > > > > > > I cant mount fixit floppy because i dont have 2.8Mb floppy drive. > > > (i was booting boot and mfsroot floppies). > > > > > > I dont have emergency shell ot vty4. > > > > > > Fdisk shows valid freebsd partition. > > > Disklabel shows nothing even if i define slices with openbsd installer. > > > > > > I tried almost anything with disklabel - doesnt help. > > > > > > > > > SCSI - NCR 810. > > > Disc - UNISYS U1545 (2Gb). > > > > > > Problem exists in 3.1 and in 3.2 RELEASE. > > > > > > > > > What can i do for you to help to fix that problem? > > > I have strong C experience, and i'm using FreeBSD since 1.0.5-RELEASE. > > > > Exactly which version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? Does the > > sysinstall program run and if so, can you try deleting the partitions and > > re-creating them in the label editor of sysinstall. > > I used EXACTLY 3.1-RELEASE and EXACTLY 3.2-RELEASE as i said. > I did completely disk cleanup and recreation from disklabel (i tried > even A - automatic),. > As soon as i press commit in installation menu, or w in disklabel > program - i'm getting that error message. And disklabel doesnt write > label to disk. > Also disklabel shows that message when it starts, i e when its trying to > read disklabel. I'm not quite sure whats wrong with sysinstall but if you blow away the existing label with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdaXX count=1 then it might be less confused. -- 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