From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Apr 7 0:12:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBB537B42C; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:12:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA16974; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:12:41 -0700 Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 00:12:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Wilko Bulte Cc: "David O'Brien" , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ALpha 4100 boot issues In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > [ 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? Nope. And neither on NetBSD. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message