From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Mar 9 16:12:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from piglet.ucsf.edu (piglet.ucsf.EDU [128.218.67.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7390114FF7 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@piglet.ucsf.edu) Received: (from steve@localhost) by piglet.ucsf.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA54996; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:11:45 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 16:11:44 -0800 From: Steve Sizemore To: Doug Rabson Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing boot manager Message-ID: <19990309161144.A55035@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> References: <19990309112133.A52866@cmpharm.ucsf.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug Rabson on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:19:41PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 08:19:41PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Steve Sizemore wrote: > > > Trying to install any flavor of BSD on my AlphaPC 164LX. So far > > FreeBSD seems to come closest, but... > > > > After several attempts to install from CDROM (3.1) and various ftp > > distributions, I finally had success installing the current (4.0) > > snapshot. The only error message that I got was that the compat22 > > package failed, which I guess isn't surprising. > > > > However, the machine won't boot - it can't find /boot/loader. Why > > wasn't that installed, and how do I install it? > > Can you tell me exactly which 4.0 snapshot you installed? It might be > useful to list the contents of /boot from the emergency shell after > another test installation. Yesterday I installed 206 from ftp2.freebsd.org. Today that one was gone, so I switched to 304, which is the one that resulted in my email, above. Since then, either the network or server performance has been so bad that I haven't been able to reinstall it. I had to go back to 206 from ftp.freebsd.org. (Why don't the mirrors all have the same directory structures and snapshots?) I just finished installing that one. /boot has boot1, loader, and netboot, which are all "MS Windows COFF Unknown CPU" files. There is also a help file. I hope that the "Unknown CPU" is not Intel... Well, I just booted it, and viola! :-) Looks like the 0204 snapshot works, and the 0304 is broken. Steve -- ----------------------------------------------#-----#--#####--------------- # # # # Steve Sizemore # # # Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology # # # Box 0450, Room HSE-1285 # # # University of California Medical Center # # # # 513 Parnassus Avenue ##### ##### ##### ####### San Francisco CA 94143-0450 # # # # # steve@cmpharm.ucsf.edu ##### ##### (415) 476-6987 FAX: (415) 476-6515 # # # # # -------------------------------------------------------------#####--#------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message