From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 7 12:44:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08269 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:44:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08259 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07864; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:43:40 -0800 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:43:39 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: my experiences so far... In-Reply-To: <199811072022.MAA05985@dingo.cdrom.com> 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 > 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?). That was it. I popped a S3 card in, and had to force the console to graphics, and am now in the sysinstall menu. Right on. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message