Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 22:59:18 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RESOLVED - Re: loader issues... Message-ID: <8v4d86$1mfn$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05.10011162138540.13757-100000@comet.connix.com> <Pine.BSI.4.05.10011171527320.10967-100000@comet.connix.com> <20001117124646.A25614@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > 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). More generally, we don't boot if 'a' doesn't start at offset 0. Apparently the bootstrap has this hardcoded and doesn't read the disklabel. Among other things that also means that you can't install on a disk previously used for Linux without relabeling. (Linux/alpha with SRM uses the same disklabel format, but 'a' starts at an offset with the space before 'a' used for the aboot bootstrap, since Linux ext2fs doesn't leave any space at the beginning of a file system for the boot blocks.) Well, you can install just fine, but you can't boot from it, as I learned the hard way. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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