From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Aug 11 18:23:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8941137BAB7 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:23:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA39542; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:23:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 18:23:39 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: George Cox Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Digital Server 5000 Message-ID: <20000811182339.A39513@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000811180206.A403@trafalgar.sophos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000811180206.A403@trafalgar.sophos.com>; from gjvc@sophos.com on Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:02:06PM +0100 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 06:02:06PM +0100, George Cox wrote: > 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. This is exactly the same experience one gets trying to install FreeBSD on a 4100. If possible, install FreeBSD on a disk using another Alpha, and transfer the disk back to the 5000. I'm sure it won't just work as we won't identify the machine in the HW dependant bits of /sys/alpha/. BUT you will probably get farther. In a month or so, we could probably get this supported if you are willing to give on of the Alpha developers a serial console on the 5000. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message