Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 09:18:46 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        "ronald" <nald_s@yahoo.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: installation..
Message-ID:  <15105.11446.851975.480818@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <000001c0dce6$cde72400$180310ac@starko.co.id>
References:  <000001c0dce6$cde72400$180310ac@starko.co.id>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

ronald writes:
 > heloo..i've alpha server 800/400 system's can i use that machine to install
 > freebsd ??
 > i;been try install using 'ftp'...and finished ..but when i boot from srm
 > console ..the machine halted..
 > >>>b dka0
 > .
 > .
 > .
 > halt code =2
 > kernel stack not valid halt
 > PC =fffffc00005c8190
 > 
 > how should i do next ??
 > 

How is your disk layed out?  You *must* have the root partition be 'a'
and be the first partition on the disk.  If you, for example, put
another partition first on the disk (such as 'b'), that would explain
your boot failure.

Drew
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer	http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin
Duke University				Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu
Department of Computer Science		Phone: (919) 660-6590

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?15105.11446.851975.480818>