From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 22 5:41: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C2937B4D7 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id eAMDewl29870 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:41:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id eAMDer535149; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:40:57 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.9.2) id eAMDerg23185; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:40:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:40:53 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: "Person, Roderick" Cc: "'Alpha FreeBSD'" Subject: Re: Installing 4.1 on Noname AXPpci 33 Message-ID: <20001122144052.A23162@cicely8.cicely.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from personrp@ccbh.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:26:15AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 08:26:15AM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: > I been at this for some thime now (about 2 weeks) after get everything I > needed to boot this sucker up I am at this point. > > When I place the mfsroot disk in it seem to read it fine for a minute or so, > then I get unknown error, then it seem to continue to boot and detect all > the hardware, but I get the message to to manually type in the boot device > and filesystem. > > I tried to use this: > ufs:/dev/fd0 > > for the mfsroot disk but it tells me that there is no /sysinstall on it. > > So I tried to recreate the mfsroot disk? And it seems to not work at all. I > tried it by using the steps in the readme(in the floppies dir) on the 4.1 > CD. I get lots of error(yes I tried to format 7 different disks). I then > tried to use rawrite in DOS and no luck the image would not take. > > Now since the kernal image took fine this leads me to ask is the a problem > with the 4.1 mfsroot.flp image or I'm I really missing something!!!??? I'm running 4.1 on such a system and installed it using disks. From the message there is something wrong with your image or disk. It would help if you be more specific about the error you've got. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message