From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 6 8:36:24 2001 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 1B3C537B423 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 08:36:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) 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 LAA18364; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:36:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f36FZnc06798; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:35:49 -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 Message-ID: <15053.57941.357485.592612@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:35:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Chris Casey Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.3-RC XP1000 In-Reply-To: References: <15053.53301.123990.448655@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Try installing with a serial console, so you can get a transcript of what might have happened. Also, are the scsi disks plugged into the on-board controller or an sym controller in a PCI slot? If the latter, move the controller to a slot which is on hose 0. Drew Chris Casey writes: > > For what its worth, the 4.3-RC iso gets all the way to a blue screen when > you would expect to get the installation menu and then stops. There is > again a chance of replacing linux with fbsd on the machines here but I > seem to have terrible luck with installing on these guys. On the alt-f2 > console I find nothing unexpected: > > DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) > DEBUG: Cant't open PC-card controller /dev/card0. > DEBUG: Cant open USB controller. > DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to sl0 > > Anyway, is there a hoop I need to jump through to get this guy to boot and > install? > > Thanks > > Chris Casey > Unix System Administrator > KSU Physics Department > (785) 532-6810 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message