Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 15:25:45 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Matteo Bernardini <matteo@ing.unipi.it> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems in installing on a DEC 500a Message-ID: <20010525152545.B9219@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <3B0EADEA.E17877B8@ing.unipi.it>; from matteo@ing.unipi.it on Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:09:30PM -0500 References: <3B0EADEA.E17877B8@ing.unipi.it>
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 02:09:30PM -0500, Matteo Bernardini wrote: > Sorry for bothering you... > > I got a Digital Personal Workstation 500a in which I have to install > freebsd. > I upgraded the firmware to 7.2, the latest one, and I have booted the > installation floppy and the cd-rom for release 4.3: it actually starts > to load the kernel and then I got a message > "Expected 1, not 4 program headers" (that looks like an elf problem) > and it quits. > I'm booting from milo and at the command line I write > boot fd0:kernel.gz > boot hda:kernel > If I try to boot from Alphabios it keeps looking for kernel on the first > partition of the harddisk (SCSI) > Am I doing something wrong? FreeBSD does not run under AlphaBIOS or ARC. You need to run it from the SRM console. I have no clue about milo, and I don't see why one would want to use it with FreeBSD to be honest. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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