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List:       freebsd-alpha
Subject:    Re: Help with Alpha Server 2100A
From:       Carlos Santos <cajo () mail ! pt>
Date:       2001-04-27 15:13:19
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I'm going to try again with the correct partition.

Thanks a lot for your quick answers, and sorry for the time spent due to
this dummy error i made :-)

I'll post the result after the new install...

Thanks again Drew...
Carlos Santos

> Carlos Santos writes:
>  > Ok... so my config is something like this :
>  > 
>  > I have 7 x 2 GB hard drives with Raid 5 which means that i have one
disk of
>  > 12 Gb.
>  > 
>  > I have one swap partition of 256 Mb (twice the Ram)
>  > and the remaining 11,7 Gb to FreeBSD.
>  > 
>  > mlxd0a SWAP 256 MB SWAP
>  > mlxd0b /	11786 MB UFS N
>  > 
>  > So the problem might be due to this misconfigured slices , right ?
> 
> Misconfigured partitions, yes.  The bootloader really should be able
> to deal with this, but it can't.
> 
> 
> 
>  > I'm going to try again, putting the "a" slide first.
>  > Wich would be the best configuration for the slices ?
>  > 
> 
> The "a" partition should always be first.  If you're unsure how to lay
> things out, you might want to let sysinstall do it for you from the
> parition menu.
> 
> That said, I don't think there are any problems with putting all of
> FreeBSD in a single 11.7GB partition, as long as its first on the disk.
> 
> Drew
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