Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 17:52:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Pawel Nogas <pnogas@amu.edu.pl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010111751020.52023-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com>
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > Andrew Gallatin writes: > > - You installed on a disk with an fdisk table (eg root is da0s1a and not da0a) > > -- You cannot use fdisk slices on alpha boot disks. > > How is this possible, using the system tools, if Alpha cannot boot > from it? Are they broken? SRM doesn't grok MSDOS partitions, and SRM is the only supported boot montor. > > > > - You accidentally managed to install with i386 and not alpha > > distribution sets --- there are separate CDs for x86 and alpha > > How is this possible? Same question: is the install process broken, > in that it actually permits this to happen, ever? You're talking to the wrong folks on this one. Take it up with JKH && Mike Smith.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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