From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 12 11:22:44 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 B3E7C37B503; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:22:39 -0700 (PDT) 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 OAA18770; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:22:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9CIMbZ78775; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:22:37 -0400 (EDT) (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: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:22:37 -0400 (EDT) To: John Baldwin Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, (Pawel Nogas) Subject: Re: Problem with FreeBSD on AlphaStation 255/233 In-Reply-To: References: <200010120048.RAA10968@usr09.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14822.97.297867.857108@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin writes: > > Hmmm. If you booted from alpha floppies and tried to use the x86 CD > I'm not sure it would catch the error. If you booted the CD then you This was common (at least a few people complained about it) around the time of 4.0-release. People started getting x86 4.0 CDs in the mail. It wasn't terribly clear they were x86 only. Some people erroniously thought it had alpha bits on it too, but just didn't boot on alpha. They downloaded floppies. Threw CD in when sysinstall asked for media. Sysinstall installed x86 binaries. People complained that their system wouldn't boot. Never underestimate the ability of people hang themselves when given sufficient rope :-( Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message