From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 8:35:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (server.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBB7737B4E5 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA98280; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:34:49 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Eldridge Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18-Oct-00 Mike Eldridge wrote: > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: >> Would a general concensus of the folks on -alpha agree that FreeBSD 4.x >> for the Alpha is stable enough for a production server? > > I wouldn't. I can't even get the thing installed. The kernel panics as > it's trying to boot. Linux runs fine on it. I've looked for help, but I > can't find any. Oh well, back to Linux I guess. :) The kernel doesn't panic on boot, the loader does. The SRM message you get (kernel stack not valid halt) is treating the loader as the kernel. > Mike -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message