From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 11: 7:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6754A37B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:07:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 13lxcU-000MQw-00; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 18:07:18 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9II35t03927; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:03:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 20:03:05 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Mike Eldridge Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha multia axp (aka noname) boot problems Message-ID: <20001018200305.O1832@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from diz@cafes.net on Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:14:41PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 02:14:41PM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote: > I have an Alpha Multia AXP 166mhz box that I've been running Linux on for > a couple of years and decided I'd try FreeBSD. I created the two 1.44MB > floppies needed and booted with them. I kept getting the soft errors as > described in some of the FreeBSD documentation. During kernel boot, it > spit out "dec_axppci_33_intr_map: bad interrupt pin 192" about 80 times > and then the kernel failed with a memory management fault. Sounds like this might be an SRM version issue. I'll put up a late-version SRM for Multia at ftp://www.tcja.nl/pub/wilko anytime soon. > I've also read that you can't use FreeBSD on the console with Multias > because of some issue with the video card. I'm not quite sure I > understand why this is, I ran Linux on the console just fine (I even got > it to run X!, although only at 640x480). This is because there is no TGA driver in FreeBSD/alpha. -- Wilko Bulte wilko@freebsd.org Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message