From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 15 11:27:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9674937B479 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:27:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA06772; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:27:03 -0800 Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 11:27:01 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Marc Kaufman Cc: Wilko Bulte , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2RC1 hosed on AS1200 In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20001115111706.00aee970@mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Marc Kaufman wrote: > >> 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) Well, no, once you get installed you *should* be fine :-). If you have the ability, on a separate system, to dd the boot.flp (kern.flp && mfsroot.flp in one 3MB image) onto the first sectors of the disk you'd install on the AS1200, you can try that as an install path. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message