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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:46:32 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de>
To:        Eduardo Damato <damato@unesp.br>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Hard Disk not found
Message-ID:  <20020612144631.GD78644@cicely5.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206121012580.525-100000@civitate.ai.unesp.br>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206121012580.525-100000@civitate.ai.unesp.br>

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On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:20:07AM -0300, Eduardo Damato wrote:
> This is my first message to this list. I currently have 5 DS20
> alphaservers running alpha linux, and am quite unhappy with it because of
> memory leakage, stateful netfilter problems and many unaligned traps...
> So I am thinking of taking up FreeBSD on my servers to see how it works.
> The problem is that I am now having problems with installing it on
> the DS20s ...
> I boot normally with FreeBSD for Alpha CD, but when I try to find the HDs
> the installation program reports that no HD was found in the system. This
> is very strange since SRM reports dbk100 and dkb200 as present on the
> system.
> Does anybody have any ideas on how to get the hds recognized? Is there any
> tweaks to be applied? Do I have to set any special variable on SRM to have
> them found?

You need to wipe out the partitiontable.
Linux does something that FreeBSD's sysinstall doesn't like.

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
ticso@cicely.de         Usergroup           info@cosmo-project.de


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