From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 15 11:25:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CFC337B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:25:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA21094; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:25:29 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAFJPTi37724; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:25:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:25:29 -0500 (EST) To: "Marc Kaufman" Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.2RC1 hosed on AS1200 In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20001115111706.00aee970@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> References: <20001115080554.A2707@freebie.demon.nl> <4.2.2.20001115111706.00aee970@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14866.57941.961166.64076@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marc Kaufman writes: > >> So, basically, a large number of alphas will not work in 4.X because of the > >> boot issues (which nobody really understands) and the hose stuff. Crap. > > >Yep. There are quite some 'red' machine types on www.freebsd.org/~wilko > > Should I wait around for 4.3 or just go get Linux, which does boot > on an AS1200? (I really have a preference for FreeBSD if there is > any hope) Can you try the following work-around: Go get the 4.0-RELEASE boot floppy. Mount it. Copy off /boot/loader Mount the 4.2 floppy. Replace /boot/loader with the one from 4.0. Attempt booting your 1200. Is there any improvement? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message