Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:49:18 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@scms.utmb.EDU> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Lynx install problem with recent stable ISO Message-ID: <200109181649.f8IGnIo16557@histidine.utmb.edu>
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Machine is an Alpha Server 2100A 5/250, 4CPU, 1GB memory I recently inherited from our IS group. The objective is to use it for number crunching. Everything passes SRM tests OK. The booted CD was the Gallatin disk1.iso from approximately Aug. 23. (Which is 4.4RC2, I think.) My plan was to install from this CD onto the HP narrow disk found below, then cvsup to -current, and upgrade that way. -current is needed to take advantage of the 4 CPUs, according to my understanding. I have no previous experience with -current, but I've been running -stable (Intel) since 2.0, so felt this was a good opportunity to contribute something back to the project. I'll subscribe to the current mailing list, yada, yada. Here are the results. The following was copied by hand: P00>> show device dka0.0.0.2001.0 DKA0 HP C3724S 5153 dka600.6.0.2001.0 DKA600 RRD46 0557 dva0.0.0.1000.0 DVA0 RX26/RX23 ewa0.0.0.2009.0 EWA0 00-00-F8-21-B6-E1 dka0.7.0.2001.0 PKA0 SCSI Bus ID 7 P00>> boot dka600 (boot dka600.6.0.2001.0 -flags 0) block 0 of dka600.6.0.2001.0 is a valid bootblock reading 358 blocks from dka600.6.0.2001.0 bootstrap code read in base = 200000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 2cc00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing page table at 3fff0000 initializing machine state setting affinity to the primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code halted CPU 0 halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = 0 P00>> There was also an Adapatec ultrawide SCSI adapter on the PCI bus (not found by the SRM, which was the expected result, according to my understanding). The main disks will be connected to it. My question is about the next step: (1) get the latest -stable .iso and try again (e.g., 4.4-RELEASE)? (2) Get a -current snapshot known to work on Lynx and try again? (3) Take anyone's advice that wants to suggest something else? Thanks, Bud Dodson -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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