From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 02:09:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA6416A420 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rhowe@siksai.co.uk) Received: from smtp.nildram.co.uk (smtp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE9843D45 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rhowe@siksai.co.uk) Received: from doufu (doufu.siksai.co.uk [82.133.8.9]) by smtp.nildram.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700ED2529BC; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from xiao.siksai.co.uk ([82.133.8.12] ident=rhowe) by doufu with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1FDuIg-0005qC-I8; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:19 +0000 Received: by xiao.siksai.co.uk (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:17 +0000 From: "Russell Howe" Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:17 +0000 To: Ulrich Message-ID: <20060228020917.GA2778@xiao.rsnet> References: <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060227231802.8883.qmail@igel.cyberlink.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DEC 500a X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 02:09:28 -0000 On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 12:18:02AM +0100, Ulrich wrote: > Hi Pete (and to all kind readers/helpers) > > have you been able to solve your problem of booting Release 5.4 on your > Alpha 500a? > > I'm asking because I encountered probably the same problem on more or less > the same type of machine (Miata). > > I'm booting with floppy, in fact with the 5 floppies I've prepared. > It goes smoothly until it is booting the kernel. > It eventually reports > > ... > pci0: at device 11.0 (no driver attached) > pci0: at device 12.0 (no driver attached) > > halted CPU 0 Apparently there's some firmware module you need to load for the SCSI chipset. I haven't got details handy, but I think that should get 5.4 booted. 6.0 still isn't booting for me, but that's something else and I haven't had chance to try different versions etc yet. -- Russell Howe | Why be just another cog in the machine, rhowe@siksai.co.uk | when you can be the spanner in the works?