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Subject: Re: alphaserver 8400 5/300?
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Oh- I should qualify that it works more or less fine under -stable- and
-current sort of worked last I cheked.

There's some magic you have to do to get a console running on zs0- IIRC you
have to edit ttydevs and add zs0 on a getty line- and you have to make
the node possibly by hand- 'mknod /dev/zs0 c 135 0'.

-matt


On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> Did you buy a diesel generator too?
> 
> It has been known to boot. It's been even known to boot with multiple
> processors at some point. There are problems with memory > 2GB.
> 
> Since I left NASA/Ames, the only developer who has access to one (fitfully) is
> Wilko.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, theturtle wrote:
> 
> > I just acquired an alphaserver 8400 5/300. I was
> > wondering what sort of support FreeBSD has if any for
> > this sytem.
> > 
> > chris(TheTurtle)
> > 
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