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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:01:02 +0100
From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Chris Martin <outsidefactor@iinet.net.au>
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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 08:56:54AM +1100, Chris Martin wrote:
> Well, I just downloaded and burnt 5.2.1 Alpha and tried to boot it up and it
> bailed out while booting (just after an EISA Bridge message) with:
> 
> Unexpected machine check
> 
> Well I guess that means I now am stuck with Tru64. 5.1 Didn't load (doesn't
> seem to have drivers for the DAC960 included in the 5.1 Kernel), so I guess
> I will install 4.something and then maybe try an upgrade.
> 
> Damn, I would really have preferred Open Source. Any suggestions? Are any
> other BSDs more complete in there 2100 support?

You might want to try NetBSD, but I think 2100 are also problematic with
that.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org