Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 18:00:38 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (wilko) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <199901081700.SAA03748@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: From wilko at "Jan 7, 99 09:22:55 pm"
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As wilko wrote... > As Aspen Tech support refered me to Aspen Tech sales for a SRM ROM > and Aspen Tech sales does not seem to read email I decided to bluntly > dump an EB64plus SRM console ROM into the Aspen Alpine board. > > Surprise: seems to work.. The Alpine does not have an ethernet i/f onboard, > the EB64+ does (it seems, I've never seen one in real life) but the SRM > does not seem to care too much. Digital Unix collapses with a panic > though.. when I try to boot an install CD. You'd expect I know better after years of hardware hacking but: there was a memory jumper set wrong. The board correctly told me it had 64Mb, but it was set for a single bank 4x16Mb instead of for a dual bank 2x4x8Mb. Both Dunix and NetBSD stopped crashing after the board was setup correctly 8-) I plan to port the NetBSD EB64+ specific bits to FreeBSD/axp (hopefully soon..) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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