From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 11 10:34: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B86237B416; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:33:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA13876; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g3BHXOn34412; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15541.51428.541308.526996@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:33:24 -0400 (EDT) To: Cc: Subject: Re: DP 1 on alphaserver 2100a install report In-Reply-To: <283a01c1e174$f29288b0$0500a8c0@Bester> References: <283a01c1e174$f29288b0$0500a8c0@Bester> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Can you provide the output of "show conf" from the SRM console, please? FWIW, I suspect there may be some sort of problem with your graphics card (like its an usupported TGA card showing a new failure mode). I suggest you try to insall using a serial console (96008N1, disconnect keyboard and power-cycle box to redirct console to serial port). Cheers, Drew pink@eclipse.co.uk writes: > I have downloaded 5.0DP1-alpha > > I'm attempting to install on an DEC alphaServer 2100a > > During initial boot from the CD the machine appears to hang with screen > corruption. > > All the initialisation seems to be fine until just after the SCSI interface > check. > > I get the waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle. > Then a list of the disk interfaces. > da0 to da5 > (there are six discs) > > Then immediately after the last device check (da5) I get screen corruption. > The screen corruption is different each time and seems to have no familiar > pattern to it. > > So I removed all but one of the disks to see if it was the disk check itself > that was causing problems. > With only a single drive in place I get the same failure after da0. > > Looking at a recent Dmesg from my i386 box it would appear the next thing > after the disk interface check is mounting of the root partition. > > I would assume this root partition mount point is on the CD and it is > failing on this. Am I correct in this assumption? > > > If anyone wants more info on this then let me know what you require and I > will do my best to provide it. > > If anyone wants to give me any hints or tips as to what I can do next then > please do. I have a few things I'm going to try as soon as I get time but > would welcome any others as my BSD experience is in my opinion very limited. > > Pink. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message