From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Oct 22 7:10: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from snd-fw.med.navy.mil (snd-fw.med.navy.mil [159.71.152.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23CC537B403 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by snd-fw.med.navy.mil (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) id f9MEAm928374 for ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:10:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webshield.med.navy.mil(159.71.88.20) by snd-fw.med.navy.mil via csmap (V6.0) id srcAAAc0aOA3; Mon, 22 Oct 01 07:10:48 -0700 Received: FROM nmc-sdca-exch1.med.navy.mil BY WEBSHIELD.med.navy.mil ; Mon Oct 22 07:08:56 2001 -0700 Received: by nmc-sdca-exch1.med.navy.mil with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:11:21 -0700 Message-ID: <21F39C657C61D311851300805FBE0FAD025EB4BF@NMC-SDCA-EXCH2> From: "Thornton, Neill R, HM2" To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: AlphaServer 2100 5/300... not supported? Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 07:11:34 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message