From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 08:00:28 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F13616A420 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:00:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: from ford.blinkenlights.nl (ford.blinkenlights.nl [213.204.211.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA06043D46 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sten@blinkenlights.nl) Received: from tea.blinkenlights.nl (tea.blinkenlights.nl [192.168.1.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ford.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3C3BDFA; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:00:25 +0100 (CET) Received: by tea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 101) id 5AF4117B; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:00:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tea.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 414EC2E; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:00:25 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:00:25 +0100 (CET) From: Sten Spans To: Adam Feigin In-Reply-To: <20051224141123.85721.qmail@web32907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20051224141123.85721.qmail@web32907.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems installing 6.0 on Miata (PWS500au) X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:00:28 -0000 On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Adam Feigin wrote: > Hello. I've been trying to install 6.0 from CD on my > Miata, without any luck. At first, I got reports that > the qlogic driver was a bit flakey, so I should > install on an IDE drive. Alas, recabling the machine > is not really what I had in mind. > > So, I figured that I'd swap the qlogic for a symbios > (875) card, and try that; if its the isp driver thats > flakey, then perhaps it would work. > > Well, the mighty casey has struck out. The booting > with the sym card gets to the same point (looks like > SCSI probe), and then halts. Here's the boot -v > output: Symbios cards work, my ds10 boots hapily from an 895. It might be a dead scsi disk or bad cables. Have you tried booting netbsd/openbsd to double check if the hardware is ok ? -- Sten Spans "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen - Anthem