From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat May 20 22:14:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5EB737B886 for ; Sat, 20 May 2000 22:14:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA12703; Sun, 21 May 2000 01:14:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA21770; Sun, 21 May 2000 01:14:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 01:14:28 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: AlphaServer 2100 family: call for testers X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14631.24099.754712.525522@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson & I have an AlphaServer 2100 4/200 booting FreeBSD. It seems stable. It has built its own world, and is building its own kernels. I'm looking for people who have an AlphaServer 2000 (demi-sable), an AlphaServer 2100 (sable), or an AlphaServer 2100A (lynx) who are interested in testing out what we've got so far. http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/AS2100/kern.flp is a floppy image containing the FreeBSD 5.0 BOOTMFS (install) kernel with AS2100 support. If you're feeling adventurous, you can load the mfsroot from the 4.0-RELEASE and attempt an installation. (ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.0-RELEASE/floppies/mfsroot.flp) Alternatively, you can try http://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/AS2100/kernel.gz which is just a GENERIC kernel & is suitable for netbooting. Please let me know if your machine boots & is usable. Make sure to report any problems you find to me along with boot output. If the machine crashes, please send along the full panic output. And if you have a lynx, I'm _really_ interested in seeing the boot output regardless of whether it worked. The following caveats apply: - I have never seen a 2100A nor have I seen documentation for a 2100A. I have no idea if they will work with what I've got so far. - EISA bus support is not compiled into the kernel. I have no idea if it works right. I've got an EISA card to test with & I'll pursue this soon (partly a matter of digging up the right ECU disks..). - I haven't tried PCI cards behind PPBs. Cheers, Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message