From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Oct 31 12:39:12 2000 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 6E95537B4CF for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 12:39:10 -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 13qiBY-00001O-00; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 20:39:08 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9VKgGp02621; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:42:16 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 21:42:16 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Person, Roderick'" , "'Alpha FreeBSD'" Subject: Re: Help with first Alpha!!! Message-ID: <20001031214216.E435@freebie.demon.nl> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7988@l04.research.kpn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7988@l04.research.kpn.com>; from K.J.Koster@kpn.com on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:40:03PM +0100 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 Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:40:03PM +0100, Koster, K.J. wrote: > Dear Roderick, > > I have the same board. It takes ages before it gives off signs of life after > powerup. Make sure that you leave it on for a few _minutes_ before assuming > it's dead. > > Check that you have 36-bit SIMMs and some cache. Mine didn't boot without > the cache (or I did not wait long enough, of course) 0Mb cache is supposed to be a valid config. I no longer have my NoName so I cannot try. While I had it here, I have run it with multiple different VGA cards. Varying from Stealth64 to ISA ET4000 boards, and Mach64 PCI. All worked for me. What is the exact problem you are seeing? Does the NoName work with a serial console? -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org 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