From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 01:40:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09DC16A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 01:40:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta05-svc.ntlworld.com (mta05-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71F3343D5A for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 01:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from santanu@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk) Received: from hep.phy.cam.ac.uk ([81.97.213.96]) by mta05-svc.ntlworld.com ESMTP <20040515083922.DLTW28065.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>; Sat, 15 May 2004 09:39:22 +0100 Message-ID: <40A5D792.2010809@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 09:40:50 +0100 From: Santanu Das User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean-Francois Gobin References: <40A568A6.7030100@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> <20040515073213.O42901@ns> In-Reply-To: <20040515073213.O42901@ns> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 08:40:59 -0000 Hi all, Many thanks for all of yours reply. Every time I try to boot FreeBSD from installation CD, it seems to start fine, with lines like: FreeBSD/Alpga SRM CD9660 boot, Revision 1.2 (root@mithlond.btc.adaptec.com, Mon Feb 23 19:12:15 GMT 2004) Memory 229376 k Loading /boot/defeaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x50a3c0+0x41b00 sysms[0x8+0x67350+0x51223......... - then it displays: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt, Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel].... / and then ends up with: Unexpected machine check: mces = 0x1 vector = 0x660 param = 0xfffffc0000006000 pc = 0xfffffc0000697084 ra = 0xfffffc00003b4c98 curproc = 0xfffffc00008123e0 pid = 0, comm = swapper panic: machine check cpuid: 0; Uptime: 1s Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort then going back to 'booting from the CD' stage. It's happening again again. Surprisingly, when I try to install Digital Unix, it's not complaining - just installing smoothly. Any idea what' might be the problems? Santanu PS. Jean - thanks for your offer, you seem to be a true Alpha lover. It has found a good home just a few days ago - that's mine - and I wanna take care of her as long as I can. I'll let you know by sure if I change my mind in future. Jean-Francois Gobin wrote: >I think it would be best to try booting the installer before doing >anything else that may damage your DG UX install. > >In SRM, when you're sure you may boot safely, you can rip off any boot >options (file, flag, autodevice and so on), just to be on the safe side. > > >PS : if you want to get rid of your AS, don't hesitate to contact me! I >can make a little room for her! ;-) > >JF > > >On Sat, 15 May 2004, Santanu Das wrote: > > > >>Hi, >> >>At present Digital Unix is running on the system, I just want to remove >>that want to install fresh copy of FreeBSD. Do I need to format the disk >>before start FreeBSD installation? Is there any option from SRM console >>to do that? >> >>Santanu >> >>Dan Williams wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I'm running 5.1-RELEASE on an AS 1000A 5/400, but again that's an EV5 and >>>not an EV4 like the 4/266 would have... I would assume it works though. >>> >>>Dan >>> >>>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Wilko Bulte wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:11:10PM +0100, Santanu Das wrote: >>>> >>>>Not 5.2.1 because we do not have that model at work anymore, but previously >>>>4.x ran fine on these machines. I had EV5 CPUs in ours though. >>>> >>>>Have you read the Alpha version of HARDWARE.TXT? That has more info >>>>on the various Alpha models. >>>> >>>>Wilko >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>> >>>>>This is the first time I'm trying FreBSD and even more, the very first >>>>>on a AlphaServer. I downloaded four iso images namely, >>>>>5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-bootonly.iso, 5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc1.iso, >>>>>5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-disc2.iso and 5.2.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso from >>>>>mirror side. Do I need to burn all these images? >>>>> >>>>>Did any ever body install FreeBSD on that particular machine (AS 1000A >>>>>4/266) or know about any known constraint? >>>>>Any related information would be much more appreciate!!! >>>>> >>>>>Santanu >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>>freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha >>>>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>---end of quoted text--- >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha >>>>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-alpha >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-alpha-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> >> > >---------- >Jean-Francois Gobin - Administrateur gobinjf.be >http://www.gobinjf.be mailto:gobin@gobinjf.be > >