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From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3-BETA2 boots OK on PC64
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:17:37PM +0200, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote..
> 
> This is good news because on my AlphaPC 64 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA1 was not
> booting (tested with S3 Virge and Matrix Millenium).
> Is something changed in between? What was the problem?

Not that I noticed.  But it might be worth taking the VGA card out 
completely and see if it boots with a serial console.  There seems
to be fishy stuff with sc(4) and some VGA cards on Alpha.

Example: today I had an AS255 lockup after jumping to the kernel 
on BETA2.  Another VGA card and it is happily running now. Weird
if you ask me..

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org