FBSD 4.9 on AlphaServer 1000a/400

[Jean-Francois Gobin]

Hmmmm ...

Can you compare the geometry values as given by Redhat and by the
partitionning tool of freebsd ?

JF


On Tue, 18 May 2004, M Gollihue wrote:

> Hello, all!
>
> I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on an AlphaServer 1000a/400/256Mb. It
> gets through the initial configuration just fine, however, upon getting to
> the place where it attempts to download from FTP...it downloads the first 10
> blocks of the distribution then stops. The error message on VTY2 says
> "Attempt to write beyond the end of the drive."
>
> I have a Mylex 960 card with two 9Gb drives attached, partitioned 6Gb
> data/1Gb swap/1Gb temp. Anyone else experience this problem? The system
> works fine under Red Hat.
>
> I tried to load FBSD 5.2.1, but I get a machine bugcheck and it halts the
> system. But that is for another day.
>
> Thanks,
> Michael Gollihue
>
>
>
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