Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 19:43:14 -0300 From: "X-Ripper" <xripper@itelefonica.com.br> To: <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: AlphaServer ES-40... Message-ID: <001b01c38ded$8f7cc430$700aa8c0@intranet.telecom.eng.br>
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Greetings, I need some help installing FreeBSD on a ES-40. I have a DS-10 and a AS800 running without any problems the 4.9-RC version, but the ES-40 is a little different. This box has 4 x 500 Mhz CPU´s, 4 x Qlogic SCSI boards, 1 x DAC960 Mylex card sold by Compaq with 2.73 firmware, 2 x DE-500 ethernet cards, a Elsa Gloria Sinergy vídeo card, 5Gb of RAM memory and a disk shelf with 6 x 9Gb SCSI disks. The mylex is configured with one hot spare disk and 5 disks using RAID-5. I can boot the 5.1 Release without any problem, it recognizes the array, says it´s online with 32 Gb of capacity, but when I start the installation and go to label the disk, there is no disk to label and create partitions. With the same box, I installed Red Hat 7.2 without any problem but I want FreeBSD. There is some issue with firmware versions on the ES-40? I upgraded to SRM 6.15-x and to AlphaBIOS ??? ( I don´t remember now ) but it was the latest bios on Compaq site for ES-40. There is anything I can do??? Another thing, I tried to boot 4.9-RC1 also but it panics. It says that 4.8 supports ES-40 but this is not true for me. Thanks all... Alessandro.home | help
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