From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri May 11 14:44:42 2001 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 68BC637B43E for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 14:44:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14yKiD-0003sM-00; Fri, 11 May 2001 21:44:37 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4BLnQ502577; Fri, 11 May 2001 23:49:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 23:49:26 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot floppy (kern.flp) for as1200? Message-ID: <20010511234926.A2562@freebie.demon.nl> References: <3AFC4F91.1F03C18F@switchpwr.com> <15100.21220.209940.405489@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15100.21435.602270.609913@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i 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 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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