From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri May 11 14: 4:28 2001 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 1A81037B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 14:04:26 -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 RAA05275 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 17:04:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.3/8.9.1) id f4BL3tx85617; Fri, 11 May 2001 17:03:55 -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 Message-ID: <15100.21435.602270.609913@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:03:55 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot floppy (kern.flp) for as1200? In-Reply-To: <15100.21220.209940.405489@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <3AFC4F91.1F03C18F@switchpwr.com> <15100.21220.209940.405489@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Gallatin writes: > > mel kravitz writes: > > Hi, > > Any one successful booting an alphaserver 1200 with 4.3 kern.flp? My > > machine stops after : > > Memory 262144k > > / > > -thats all she wrote, hangs at that point , then goes banannas on the > > monitor -scrolling text... > > This is a dual 533 MP machine. I would like to boot it and build an SMP > > kernel. See what this guy can do. > > The loader is broken in 4.3-RELEASE. It was fixed just prior to the Let me amend this for the archives -- the loader is broken for "big iron" platforms such as the AlphaServer 1200, 4000, 4100, and 8x00. It works just fine elsewhere. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message