From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Apr 6 19:22:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C15537B43E; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 19:22:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14liN3-000Jy7-00; Sat, 07 Apr 2001 02:22:37 +0000 To: mjacob@feral.com, "David O'Brien" , Wilko Bulte , alpha@FreeBSD.org From: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: ALpha 4100 boot issues Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 02:22:37 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@wkb@freebie.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 161.114.88.72 Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > [ cc'd to -alpha for broadcast ] > > The problem was one of the following two problems: > > 1. The Qlogic SCSI controller being booted from does not work if it is not in > hose 0 (upper left, looking from rear). Is this a plain QL1040? Aka a KZPBA in DEC/CPQ speak? > 2. If the QLogic SCSI controller is the 'bridged' DEC part (i.e., the part > that has a 21150 bridge and the QLogic behind that), booting doesn't work. Hmm. I will check if this is supported in the first place. > I'm not sure which, if any, it really is. I'm inclined to think that #1 may be > broken for -current because hose 1 has the EISA console, and that there might > be some funny interaction ther. > > I'm inclined to think that #2 might be broken period for -stable because we > don't have clean hose management in -stable, IIRC. Do any of these problems show themselves using Tru64? Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message