From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 18 1:49:49 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 6BD2C112D5 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 01:49:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA63698; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:48:36 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 09:48:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Khaled Daham Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with booting kern.flp In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Khaled Daham wrote: > Hello! > > I have a problem with the kern.flp from the 3.1-REL on my alpha164LX , > when I try to boot from the dd'ed kern.flp floppy the SRM gives me > this > > (boot dva0.0.0.0.0 -flags 0) > block 0 of dva0.0.0.0 is not a valid boot block > bootstrap failure > > however I found a kern.flp(boot.flp) from www.freebsd.orf/~msmith which > worked, but it is abit old (Oct 23).Isnt the kern.flp in 3.1-REL supposed > to be bootable on an alpha system ? or is there some special trick to get > it to work ?I run SRM v5.3-3. > > /Khaled, Telia Network Services > > Mail: khaled@telia.net > Cell: 070-6785492 > Work: 08-4567281 > > :hacker: /n./ [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] I thought the 3.1-RELEASE directory contained only the i386 release (shouldn't this be x.x-RELEASE/i386 or something). You should consider trying a 3.x snapshot from ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/FreeBSD/releases/snapshots/alpha. -- 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