Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:32:27 -0300 From: Roberto de Iriarte <roberto@spock.cl> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Mahlon <mahlon-dated-1044322823.908f1c@martini.nu> Subject: Re: Fwd: Compaq ES40 Alpha, FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE - install issue. Message-ID: <3E39458B.1070909@spock.cl> References: <20030130014021.GH91756@martini.nu> <20030130081058.B46898@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte wrote: >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. >> >> >>Mahlon E. Smith jabber id: mahlon@chat.martini.nu >>http://www.martini.nu/ get pgp key: mahlon-pgp@martini.nu >>........................................................................ >> I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more >> planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system. -- >> Jack Handey >> >> >> >>----- 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 ----- >> >> >> ES40 is not supported indeed, but it seems to work far enough for you to get these messages (should it ?). Could you please post the result of (SRM) >>> sh conf and elaborate on the disk layout on your system. A bootlog would be also very helpful. Also, how did you arrange the partitions ? I have the feeling that it might work with a little effort. Would be interesting in the extreme, ES40's are getting cheaper, they might get within the reach of hobbists and kernel hackers in the close future! Regards, Roberto To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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