From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 2 5:24:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.toplink.net (mail.toplink.net [195.2.171.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D20E114C22 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 05:24:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ks@hirvi.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.toplink.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id OAA01728 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 2 May 1999 14:24:50 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hirvi.net (susi.hirvi.net [195.2.174.98]) by karhu.hirvi.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19143 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 12:38:41 +0200 Message-Id: <199905021038.MAA19143@karhu.hirvi.net> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 14:21:07 +0200 From: Kai Schmidt Reply-To: Kai Schmidt To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box X-Mailer: Kai Schmidt's registered AK-Mail 3.0b sppb1 [ger] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I am just trying to install Free BSD 3.1 on a Multia which runs NT at the moment. As recommended I downloaded the kern.flp and the the mfsroot.flp floppy images to my Linux box and did a dd if=image of=/dev/fd0 the system reports that 2880 records are written to the disk. I also tried the dd with of=/dev/rfd0 on my FreeBSD 3.1 Intel box. I upgraded the firmware to 3.8 and started up with the srm ( Digital Unix ) console. When I insert my kern floppy and do I boot dva0 which is my floppy drive, it complains about a bootstrap error. The error says: (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0) block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block bootstrap failure Any hints? -- Bye! - Kai Schmidt - "That's why we are on this ship to begin with! It becomes our problem when the machines can't handle it!" Capt. Dallas, USCSS Nostromo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message