From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Apr 19 2:11: 0 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 0FEF914F9E for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 02:10:56 -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 KAA91927; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:13:47 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:13:47 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Dan Dockery Cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Disk errors when running sysinstall In-Reply-To: <371a8b3f371acc52@mail0.mailsender.net> (added by mail0.mailsender.net) 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 Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Dan Dockery wrote: > I'm currently trying to setup FreeBSD 3.1 on my Multia. I updated the > firmware to the latest version and downloaded the two boot floppies. > Everything seems to go well (despite a number of buffer underrun/overrun > errors, but those seem to be recovered nicely) until sysinstall tries to > write the partition table to the hard drive at which time it tells me > that it couldn't turn on swap on the swap partition and that it cannot > write the partition table/mount the root device. Maybe I'm just doing > something wrong, but has anyone else encountered this, and if so how was > it resolved? > > I'll be taking it apart later on to see if there's anything that can be > changed on the hard drive that might help (jumper-wise)... > > Please write back to me directly as I'm not currently subscribed to this > mailing list. The install program for 3.1 on the alpha is seriously broken. You would problably do better to download more recent floppy images from ftp.freebsd.org and try to install with them. -- 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