Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:49:37 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Russell Howe <rhowe@siksai.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC 500a Message-ID: <20060228074937.GB39184@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20060228020917.GA2778@xiao.rsnet> References: <Pine.GSO.4.58a.0509070037220.11377@uhunix2> <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> <20060228020917.GA2778@xiao.rsnet>
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:09:17AM +0000, Russell Howe wrote.. > On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:18:02AM +0100, Ulrich wrote: > > Hi Pete (and to all kind readers/helpers) > > > > have you been able to solve your problem of booting Release 5.4 on your > > Alpha 500a? > > > > I'm asking because I encountered probably the same problem on more or less > > the same type of machine (Miata). > > > > I'm booting with floppy, in fact with the 5 floppies I've prepared. > > It goes smoothly until it is booting the kernel. > > It eventually reports > > > > ... > > pci0: <display, VGA> at device 11.0 (no driver attached) > > pci0: <display> at device 12.0 (no driver attached) > > > > halted CPU 0 > > Apparently there's some firmware module you need to load for the SCSI Do you mean ispfw.ko? > chipset. I haven't got details handy, but I think that should get 5.4 > booted. 6.0 still isn't booting for me, but that's something else and I > haven't had chance to try different versions etc yet. > > -- > Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, > rhowe@siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --- end of quoted text --- -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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