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Date:      Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:11:34 -0700
From:      "Thornton, Neill R, HM2" <NRThornton@nmcsd.med.navy.mil>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   AlphaServer 2100 5/300... not supported?
Message-ID:  <21F39C657C61D311851300805FBE0FAD025EB4BF@NMC-SDCA-EXCH2>

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Hello all... this is the third time I am sending this out.. something about
PacBell will not let me send messages to the list... but if it comes through
eventually I am sorry for the duplicates in advance!

Here at work I have just been given 4 AlphaServer machines... 2 2100
5/300's, and 2 4100 machines.  I only have my hands on one of the 2100's
right now, I should be getting the 4100 today.  They had former lives as NT
and OpenVMS Servers. 

The 2100 in question has 4 EV5 CPU boards, and 512 Mb of memory.  It (now)
has the standard I/O board and a Matrox PCI video card in it.  We have run
the EISA Config to clear out the old configuration.

When we try to install 4.4-RELEASE on it, the moment it tries to jump to the
kernel, it gives a machine check.  I never see the banner that would
indicate the start of the kernel.  It stops there, and only pressing the
"Halt/Interrupt" button gets me back to the SRM console.  

Here are some things I have tried so far to get it running:

1) As mentioned above, removed all the extra I/O boards in it.
2) Removed all the CPU cards, except CPU0.
3) Tried swapping out the video card, as well as positition.

None of these things worked.  If the Sable class machines are supposed to
work, can someone please enlighten me as to what is wrong?  I can include a
full serial console log if that would be helpful.  It seems that people have
gotten this running in the past, so maybe it is something simple.  Any help
would be appreciated, this is mainly a Windows shop, with a little VMS here
and there, so some "Powered by FreeBSD" stickers on these massive boxes
would be very cool!!!!

Thanks for the help in advance...

Neill

HM2(FMF/SW) Neill Thornton
Network Management Team
Information Technology Services Department
Naval Medical Center San Diego
(619) 532-5001 / nrthornton@nmcsd.med.navy.mil



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