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Date:      Fri, 6 Apr 2001 11:35:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Chris Casey <chriss@phys.ksu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.3-RC XP1000
Message-ID:  <15053.57941.357485.592612@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1010406101602.549O-100000@schottky.phys.ksu.edu>
References:  <15053.53301.123990.448655@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1010406101602.549O-100000@schottky.phys.ksu.edu>

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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
 > 
 > 
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