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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2001 23:49:26 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: boot floppy (kern.flp) for as1200?
Message-ID:  <20010511234926.A2562@freebie.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15100.21435.602270.609913@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:03:55PM -0400
References:  <3AFC4F91.1F03C18F@switchpwr.com> <15100.21220.209940.405489@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15100.21435.602270.609913@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:03:55PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Which reminds me: has an MFC ever taken place? Given the limited -alpha
population with big iron the fixes might as well be in RELENG_4 now.
[at least I think so.. :-]

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