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Date:      Fri, 27 Nov 1998 08:56:31 +0000
From:      curtis <ufkartfm@pacific.net>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Multia - 3.0-19981124-SNAP - report
Message-ID:  <365E693F.65FEF6C2@pacific.net>
References:  <199811270829.AAA00656@dingo.cdrom.com>

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MIKE (curtis shouted from across the net) T H A N K  Y O U !!! (smile)
IT WORKED.

I am very happy to say I now have an FreeBSD/Alpha 3.0-19981124-SNAP
running on my Multia VX42 I CAN (now) WRITE TO!

I did run across a few things:

# /sbin/disklabel -B da0
/sbin/disklabel: /usr/mdec/daboot: No such file or directory
# ls -l /usr/mdec/
total 14
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6872 Nov 24  1998 boot1

and under the SRM console, because of above, I still get (on reboot):

>>>boot -file kernel -flags a dka0
(boot dka0.0.0.6.0 -file kernel -flags a)
no such file
file open failed for kernel/dka0.0.0.6.0

and ....using 1124-SNAP kern.flp with the -flags a option for a reboot
(pressing enter, when it asks for mfsroot disk) it produces the
following [snipped]:

swapon: adding /dev/da0b as swap device
Automatic reboot in progress...
/dev/rda0a: clean, 222393 free (16769 frags, 25703 blocks, 4.2%
fragmentation)

dmesg: kvm_read: kvm_read: Bad address -> (i know where this comes from)

Starting final network daemons:.
setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib /usr/lib/compat
setting a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout /usr/lib/compat/aout
ldconfig: illegal option -- a
usage: ldconfig [-Rmrsv] [-f hints_file] [dir | file ...]

Initial rc.alpha initialization:.
rc.alpha configuring syscons: blank_time/etc/rc.alpha: cannot open
/dev/ttyv0: no such device or address

and, ...if i do not set -flags option after the install and boot dva0 ,
it brings me to the prompt without any error messages.

thanks again, very much, Mike.....n'best2u  curtis

Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> Try:
> 
> # mount /dev/da0a /
> ... (other mounts as required)
> # vi /etc/fstab
>     (remove 'sX' from device names)
> # disklabel -B da0
>     (should fix the inability to boot from dka0)
> # reboot
-- 
curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody
      I want Nobody to control my life!  How about you?
               http://www.netvideo.com/nobody

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