From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 22 2:36:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.research.kpn.com (hermes.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1DB737B4CF; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 02:36:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by research.kpn.com (PMDF V5.2-31 #42699) with ESMTP id <01JWU88JQHQA0011FF@research.kpn.com>; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:36:48 +0100 Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:36:48 +0100 Content-return: allowed Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 11:36:46 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." Subject: RE: RESOLVED - Re: loader issues... To: "'obrien@freebsd.org'" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7A39@l04.research.kpn.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Works on my AS250. Are you sure you didn't create the swap partition > before / in sysinstall? It has been my experience that we do > not boot if the `a' (/) partition isn't at a lower offset than `b' > (swap). > This is a problem, because the easiest way to make the two-partition setup is to create a swap partition of 2x memory size, and "the rest" for /. That's the way I do it for my x86 boxes with limited disk space (< 1GB). Glad that my Alpha has a 1 GB disk, so I used the auto defaults settings. Has a PR been filed for this one? Kees Jan ================================================ You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message