From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 25 17:51:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11893 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:51:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eta.ghs.com (eta.ghs.com [208.8.104.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11888 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:51:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ross@teraflop.com) Received: from random.teraflop.com (random.teraflop.com [192.67.158.207]) by eta.ghs.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA12179; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ross@localhost) by random.teraflop.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26682; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:51:04 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:51:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Ross Harvey Message-Id: <199808260051.RAA26682@random.teraflop.com> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, port-alpha@netbsd.org Subject: RE: error when running boot disk Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > This particular machine has 24 megs of RAM. Incidentally, now that I'm > using the serial console, the installation programs for NetBSD 1.3.2 > starts up just fine. That's good! Probably what was happening was that it didn't really stop at the quoted point, but later on when the PCI devices were probed. However, it probably happened so fast it couldn't be transcribed. Also, we have seen some alphas shipped with video hardware that wasn't well supported by SRM, or at least, wasn't supported by the version of SRM preload in flash as shipped. -- Ross Harvey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message