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Date:      Thu, 30 Jan 2003 08:10:58 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1044322823.908f1c@martini.nu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Compaq ES40 Alpha, FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE - install issue.
Message-ID:  <20030130081058.B46898@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20030130014021.GH91756@martini.nu>; from mahlon-dated-1044322823.908f1c@martini.nu on Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:40:21PM -0800
References:  <20030130014021.GH91756@martini.nu>

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On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 05:40:21PM -0800, Mahlon wrote:


ES40 is not a supported platform for FreeBSD/alpha list time I checked.

Please post boot messages, this makes me curious.

W/

> 
> Originally posted to -stable, firing it off over here in the hopes that
> someone might know what the prob is.
> 
> I'm not subscribed to -alpha - please cc me on any replies.
> 
> 
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> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1044302642.4a3423@martini.nu> -----
> 
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:03:59 -0800
> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
> Subject: Compaq ES40 Alpha, FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE - install issue.
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i
> From: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1044302642.4a3423@martini.nu>
> 
> 
> I'm having some installation problems here that I'm hoping someone has
> seen before.  It's my first attempt to install on an Alpha, so it's
> entirely possible that I am missing something rather basic - or simply
> don't know where to delve for diagnostic info.
> 
> On my initial attempt, sysinstall would sig11 when trying to write the
> disklabel.  I've since gone through and updated the abios and srm to the
> newest revisions - no more sig11, hooray.  Now I see this instead, *after*
> the disklabel, during newfs:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> /dev/da0a: 128.0 (262144 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
>     using 4 cylinder group of 32.02MB, 2049 blks, 4224 inodes.
> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>     32, 65600, 131168, 196736
> write error: 0
> newfs: wtfs: Operation not permitted
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> And voila, I'm stuck. 
> 
> Any help offered is appreciated, I'm eager to get this beast running.
> 
> On a side note - no fdisk option in sysinstall?  Is that normal on alpha
> installs, or is that new to 5.0?
> 
> -Mahlon
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 


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