From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 11 13:12:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wald.ucdavis.edu (wald.ucdavis.edu [169.237.237.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FCB37B47F for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:12:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (larry@localhost) by wald.ucdavis.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA30554 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:14:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Larry Tai Reply-To: Larry Tai To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Screen corruption installing 4.5 on 164LX Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi, I took an older AlphaPC 164LX that used to run RedHat/NT and tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 on it. The system used to boot up into AlphaBIOS. I downloaded the lx164srm.rom and upgraded the firmware to run SRM instead. The firmware upgrade went fine without any problems. All the SRM commands seem to work okay. I then tried to do the FreeBSD install by booting from the CD that had the 4.5 ISO on it. The usual messages that come up during an install all came up okay, displaying what the system has and ... until it got to the screen where it would normally display a rectangular box saying "probing hardware ...". The box displayed okay, but not the text within it. The text displayed was "EEEEEEEEEEEEFFEEEEEEEE". Hitting the key at this point took me to what normally would be the sysinstall screen. Again, at this point, the box gets displayed fine. But the options and selections are displayed as strings of "EEEEE ..." and some other random characters. And so I'm stuck. However, I have tried the following to narrow the problem down: 1. I've read the CD on three other systems (RedHat i386, FreeBSD i386 and an AlphaServer DS10). The CD read fine in all cases. 2. Tried faking the install on the DS10 all the way up to the sysinstall screen and everything worked. 3. The system has a Matrox Mellenium Pro on it. I swapped it out for a Diamond Stealth S220. The same problem occurred at the sysinstall screen with screen corruption. 4. I didn't think the monitor was the problem. But I swapped in a Sony 200ES just in case. The system specs are as follows: System Type: AlphaPC 164LX CPU: DecAlpha 21164, Rev 7.2 Speed: 533Mhz Video: Matrox Mellenium Pro, PCI NIC: Dec 21140 CDROM: Toshiba XM-6202B HD: 2 Quantum FireBall ST6.4A RAM: 128MB SRM: V5.6-3 Dec 28, 1999 SROM Rev: V3.1.2 D/U PALCode: V 1.23-2 OpenVMS PALCode: V 1.21-2 Does anybody have any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. --------- US-Mail: Larry Tai Department of Statistics 368 Kerr Hall University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 E-Mail: larry@wald.ucdavis.edu or lptai@ucdavis.edu Tel: (530)-752-6085 FAX: (530)-752-7099 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message