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.. :-] -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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