Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 22:37:57 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lynx test / 2nd attempt Message-ID: <20001206223757.D2734@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200012062053.eB6KrNF52293@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:53:23PM -0800 References: <200012062036.NAA21965@usr08.primenet.com> <200012062053.eB6KrNF52293@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 12:53:23PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Please find attached the transcript of the boot of yesterdays > > > > Lynx boot floppy. Unfortunately the system still hangs after > > > > the probing PnP devices message. Isn't PnP on Alpha a no-no > > > > anyway? > > > > > > ISA PnP should work just fine. Nobody's pointed out to me how we could > > > obtain the other resource information from SRM, so I haven't made any > > > attempt to emulate the BIOS PnP functionality the x86 has (but I would > > > very much like to, and I know the information is available somewhere). > > > > Is FreeBSD being "a PnP OS" an alpha need? > > I don't think I understand this question. > > > The Shanley/MindShare PnP book documents what an OS needs to do > > to be a "PnP OS". The one problem is that the POST code on most > > cards assumes POSTing by an x86 processor running ROMed x86 code > > from the card itself. > > This assumes that the card has POST firmware at all. Most ISA PnP cards > do not. Most BIOS PnP devices are initted by platform firmware (which > the Alpha has already). Video cards and supported SCSI cards are notable > exceptions; the Alpha platforms run the video BIOS in an x86 emulator, > and the SCSI POST code is integrated into the platform firmware. > > As an aside, I don't think that the PnP scan has anything to do with the > system hanging; it's simply the last probe message printed. I loathe > people that assume that because the last message printed came from > subsystem X that it must be subsystem X that is failing. Boot > verbose, you lame bastards. 8) I did. And posted it. And the last failure was not due to a programming error but due to a faulty floppy disk. AS2100A appears to boot fine into sysinstall. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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