From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Feb 14 12: 9:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B2F37B65D for ; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:09:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14T8FF-0000NK-00; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:09:45 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f1EKCYw01751; Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:12:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:12:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Michael Richards Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting an AS1200 Message-ID: <20010214211234.A1737@freebie.demon.nl> References: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3A8AE3FB.00005F.92120@frodo.searchcanada.ca>; from michael@fastmail.ca on Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0500 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 03:00:59PM -0500, Michael Richards wrote: > > The 1200 is part of the "rawhide" family of machines. Our > > bootloader provokes bugs in the console firmware of the rawhide > > (or vice versa) and prevents the machine from booting FreeBSD via > > floppy or CD-ROM devices. > > Has anyone narrowed these bugs down so we know exactly what the > problem is? Is it reasonable to expect a workaround, or is this Not that I know. So if you can investigate more please do so. > simply not possible? As Tru64 & VMS can boot from CD on these boxes it definitely can be made to work ;) > So I see. I guess I will switch it around so the hard drives run from > the onboard controller and the CD-Rom runs from the adaptec. I don't > know why they set it up this way... > > > I strongly suggest you do not run 5.0 on this box right now. > > Why is that and what is wrong with 5.0? -current is not the place to be at the moment (starting as of Feb 10 or so). Some library compatibility hassles have been introduced :-( Stick to releng_4 for this debugging work, once you know what is wrong it will most likely apply to -current as well. W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message