Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:24:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing Message-ID: <199810310224.SAA03631@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:21:24 EST." <XFMail.981030222124.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > That's correct. It should work fine on the alpha (it just did here). > > The problem is *probably* memory-related; at the moment the bootstrap > > on the Alpha is really strapped for memory. > > (after some more digging) That's probably not it; > > I did ls on the kernel floppy. the boot sees its contents fine. > So, Smart Simon (r) does this: > > On the i386 machine: > dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/rfd0 bs=18k > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt > rm -rf /mnt/* > cp mfsroot.gz /mnt > umount /mnt > > On the alpha machine: > > ls > > /mfsboot.gz > > > Perfect! Bugger. I wonder what's going wrong. > Well, almost. Now the kernel starts and dies after > > mmclock0: ... > sc0: at 0x60 irq1 on isa0 That's a known gotcha. Put a video card in it until syscons is fixed. > BTW, disklabel on the kernel boot floppy does not yield anything but an > ioctl error: > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument Is this a 2.2 or 3.0 system? If the latter, you *might* have the Bruce Broken Disklabel problem, in which case you should update. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com 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?199810310224.SAA03631>