From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 7 12:23:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06629 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:23:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles356.castles.com [208.214.167.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06621 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:23:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05985; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:22:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811072022.MAA05985@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my experiences so far... In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 11:42:41 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:22:26 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > (as I slowly shift over toward this....still involved in some legal > foo)... Thanks for all the effort, Matt. This is really appreciated. > So far, I haven't had much luck at Feral. I've a AlphaPC164 and a Multia. > The Alpha PC164 I usually just have a serial console for- and that seems > to be a problem (kernel freezes about at the point it should shift over to > a real console). There was a bogon in syscons that would cause it to behave badly if there wasn't a monitor on the system; this was fixed a little while back (maybe a week or so?). > The Multia I have on a monitor (actually this multia has an ARC instance > for linux && NT/Alpha and I switch it to SRM for NetBSD/Digital Unix)- but > in booting the latest boot.flp it puked all over my shoes with machine > checks and unexpected interrupts, yadda yadda yadda- I'm checking that > this wasn't a corrupt floppy (this has been known to have occurred before- > the floppies are really flakey on the multia) but that may not be the > case. I get this on my multia when halting; AFAIR NetBSD was doing this too, but not booting. We don't have anything in place for the TGA hardware yet though, so you're actually better off with a serial console on the Multia. There's work in progress on this; I think Thomas and Kazu will have something down in a couple of weeks, at which point it should be almost directly applicable to the older Alphas without character-cell displays as well. > Next step is to pop a graphics card into the PC164... drag... Well, > I'll try and all make it work... Should be OK like that. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message