Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 09:26:27 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Mark Gooderum <mark@jumpweb.com> Cc: "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Install on Multia Problems (SUCCESS) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903290925330.11545-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <50C732FEDE87D211954300A024786203A65D@archeron.good.com>
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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Mark Gooderum wrote: > Thanks to the helpful response from everyone. I was successful with an FTP > install, although the process was a little odd. > > I had to boot with a serial console using the 4.0 snapshot (I used the > latest one). If I boot with the "graphics" (real) console, 4.0 seems to not > take any keyboard input when it gets to the terminal type prompt. > > By booting with the serial console, I was able to use something with VT100 > emulation as well which solved my terminal oddnesses and let me get > installed. In general, the syscons driver still doesn't seem quite right. > The Multia comes up with a 48 line by 132 column display. Even with sttying > the right size, the terminal emulation in even VI seems off, VI always has > the cursor off by one and the screen doesn't update right except w/CTRL-L. > > Haven't gotten around to getting X and everything else configured, but it's > up. > > Although now I'm intrigued...I'm labeled with a FreeBSD label. The Alpha > Kernel seems to support FDISK labels just fine, just not the SRM console > load code. So I'm curious if the the 2nd or 3rd level boot block could be > put on a FAT partition on an FDISKed disk (ala MILO and Linux) and FreeBSD > booted that way using ARC instead of SRM. This would allow multi-booting > with Linux or NT similar to a PC, it would also allow a hard disk based > media install as well. Hmmm. Unfortunately, the FDISK and SRM data structures overlap in the first disk block. It isn't possible to make a disk bootable with SRM without corrupting the FDISK partition table. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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