From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 18 11:41:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7896537B4CF for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 11:41:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cafes.net (mail.cafes.net [207.65.182.25]) by mail.cafes.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA20156; Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:41:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 13:41:06 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Eldridge To: Wilko Bulte Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha 4.x releases (production quality?) In-Reply-To: <20001018192621.D1832@freebie.demon.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:54:20AM -0500, Mike Eldridge wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Kris Kirby wrote: > > > Would a general concensus of the folks on -alpha agree that FreeBSD 4.x > > > for the Alpha is stable enough for a production server? > > > > I wouldn't. I can't even get the thing installed. The kernel panics as > > it's trying to boot. Linux runs fine on it. I've looked for help, but I > > On 'it'? Please #define 'it' ? Well, I sent a message to the alpha mailing list a couple of days outlining my difficulties. #define it "alpha multia axp 166" I tend to think it's an issue with the srm firmware. I ran into all kinds of soft errors when trying to boot from a floppy, then I read that you couldn't boot from floppy because of a problem with the firmware. So I tried to boot from a cd. I do get sense errors from the cd-rom drive as it is booting, then it ends in the same errors. I guess my next step is to try a new version of the firmware. Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message