Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 21:22:56 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-alpha mailing list) Subject: horrible hack / SRM console Message-ID: <199901072022.VAA02266@yedi.iaf.nl>
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Hi there, As Aspen Tech support refered me to Aspen Tech sales for a SRM ROM and Aspen Tech sales does not seem to read email I decided to bluntly dump an EB64plus SRM console ROM into the Aspen Alpine board. Surprise: seems to work.. The Alpine does not have an ethernet i/f onboard, the EB64+ does (it seems, I've never seen one in real life) but the SRM does not seem to care too much. Digital Unix collapses with a panic though.. when I try to boot an install CD. Anyway: FreeBSD does not know about EB64+ (yet). I tried the Dec 12(?) snapshot and the whole boot process works until it tells me to build a kernel with "options DEC_EB64PLUS". Sofar, so good. I obviously want to play around a bit more, and I wonder how I can create Alpha kernels for a boot floppy. Is adding: options MFS #Memory Filesystem options MFS_ROOT #Memory Filesystem as rootfs sufficient? It looks like: ./dokern.sh <../../sys/alpha/conf/GENERIC produces what I need (I hope).. This BOOTMFS kernel config file can then be used to compile an experimental kernel, right? NB interestingly enough the latest Netbsd/alpha snap that should work with EB64+ does not even boot into the kernel (it appears). It dies after "Jumping to entry point". Halt code 5. NB2 If anybody can help me to real SRM for the Alpine please tell me. I might be chasing something really unsupported ;-) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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