From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 11 10: 2:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from viking.sophos.com (viking.sophos.com [194.203.134.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A51F237B55C for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 10:02:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gjvc@sophos.com) Received: from trafalgar.sophos.com (trafalgar.sophos.com [194.203.134.158]) by viking.sophos.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A0A6C80C for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:02:02 +0100 (BST) Received: by trafalgar.sophos.com (Postfix, from userid 1010) id 687161171C; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:02:06 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:02:06 +0100 From: George Cox To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Digital Server 5000 Message-ID: <20000811180206.A403@trafalgar.sophos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT (i386) X-EICAR: X5O!P%@AP[4PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!+H* X-Sophos: You betcha Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org G'day everyone, I have a Digital Server 5000 here. It's a real beast. It's got a 1GB memory, 2 500 MHz processors, Mylex RAID controller, and shedloads of disc space. I'd like to put FreeBSD on it (obviously) but it would appear that compatibility-wise, the signs are not good. :-( The SRM console says: DIGITAL Server 5000 Model 5305 6533A Console V5.8-2 26-Jul-2000 16:19:04 I have tried booting with a 4.1-RELEASE alpha boot floppy, and it got as far as loading /boot/loader, but got stuck (the spinny thing stopped) while loading the kernel. The boot messages go something like this: block0 of dva.0.0.0.1000.0 bootstrap code read in Building FRU table base=200000, image_start=0, image_bytes=1e00 initializing HWRPB at 2000 initializing pagetable at 1f2000 initializing machine state setting affinity to primary CPU jumping to bootstrap code loading /boot/loader Console: SRM firmware console VMS PAL rev: 0x4000200010115 OSF PAL rev: 0x4000200020117 switch to OSF PAL code succeeded FreeBSD/alpha SRM disk boot, Revision 0.3 (root@beta.osdi.bsdi.com, Thu Jul 27 08:00:34 GMT 2000) Memory: 1048676k / at this point, the spinny thing goes for some time, and then stops spinning. Some time later, the following line is printed, and then nothing further. cb_open: failed DVA 0 1000 0 0 0 8086 0002, dva.0.0.0.1000.0 Is there anything I can do? If this machine can't currently be used for FreeBSD/alpha, is there anything I can do to help out testing stuff? best; gjvc -- George Cox +44 1235 544 127 UNIX evangelist, Sophos Plc, Oxford, England To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message