From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 2 6:33:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.toplink.net (mail.toplink.net [195.2.171.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280A414BEC for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 06:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ks@hirvi.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by mail.toplink.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with UUCP id PAA02517 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 2 May 1999 15:33:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hirvi.net (susi.hirvi.net [195.2.174.98]) by karhu.hirvi.net (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA19718 for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 13:51:27 +0200 Message-Id: <199905021151.NAA19718@karhu.hirvi.net> Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 15:33:41 +0200 From: Kai Schmidt Reply-To: Kai Schmidt To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box X-Mailer: Kai Schmidt's registered AK-Mail 3.0b sppb1 [ger] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 02.05.99, 13:39:04 Doug Rabson wrote: Hi Doug, >> When I insert my kern floppy and do I boot dva0 which is my floppy drive, >> it >> complains about a bootstrap error. >> The error says: >> (boot dva0.0.0.0.1 -flags 0) >> block 0 of dva0.0.0.0.1 is not a valid boot block >> bootstrap failure >> Any hints? > Exactly where did you download these boot floppies from? Hmmh, I can't remember exactly but it was either from ftp.freebsd.org or from ftp.de.freebsd.org and there from the stable branch. I read that the floppies on the CD are broken. -- Bye! - Kai Schmidt - "That's why we are on this ship to begin with! It becomes our problem when the machines can't handle it!" Capt. Dallas, USCSS Nostromo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message